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Museum Ships Weekend 2017
« on: February 18, 2017, 08:32:59 AM »
June 0000 Zulu June 3rd  to 2359 Zulu June 4th is the date for the 2017 Museum Ships Weekend.  0000 Zulu is 7 PM CDT on the Friday of the weekend.  It's sponsored by the ham radio club on the USS New Jersey each year http://www.nj2bb.org/museum/ .

I thought I'd post this up way early this year so that you guys who are hams or wanna be hams have time to get ready this time....as opposed to not having time last year.  So, if you do not have a General ham operator license you have time to study and take the test.  In fact...time enough to take the test several times if you don't make it the first time or two.

Or..you can listen in on your SW radio even though most of the contacts do not provide QSL cards.  Last year I only made 24 contacts vs. 34 the year before.  If you can hear the Museum Ships you will hear most of the ham operators trying to contact them as well...so you could hear me screaming my lungs out trying to get a contact.

Conditions on 20 meters was brutal and most contacts were made on 40 meters versus the 2015 contest when about 30 of my contacts were on 20 meters. 

Peg....you said you missed it last year.  Now you can mark it on your calendar early enough to not miss it.   

Alf, don't know if you got your 20M antenna up in time last time.  Also Pathfinder and dipisc you guys were thinking of getting on last year.  And Deepwater...did you happen to make any contacts at sea?

PS  May 6th there will be a ham special event from the lone existing Titan Missile base left intact after deactivation.  It's in Arizona and they use the original antenna for the missile silo.
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Re: Museum Ships Weekend 2017
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2017, 06:06:39 AM »
  NAME                                           TYPE OF SHIP                     LOCATION                 CALLSIGN
      USS Midway                                 Aircraft Carrier                   San Diego, CA                 NI6IW   
      USS New Jersey                           Battleship                       Camden, New Jersey          NJ2BB
      USS Oklahoma Mast Memorial     Battleship Mast Memorial       Muskogee, OK             WW2OK   
      SS Col. James M Schoonmaker   Bulk Carrier                            Toledo, OH                     K8E   
      **Claud W Somers                      Chesapeake Bay Skipjack            Reedville, VA           W4NNK 
      USS Stewart                                 Destroyer Escort               Galveston, TX                  KK5W     
      Evelina M Goulart                         Fishing Schooner               Essex, MA                        W1E
      Götz von Mannheim                     Landing Craft                    Mannheim, Germany         DL0NW   
      RMS Queen Mary                         Passenger Ship                 Long Beach, CA                 W6RO 
      **W T Preston                             Sternwheeler (Snagboat)  Anacortes, WA                 KG7OCP
      H. L. Hunley                                Submarine - Civil War          Charleston, SC               N4HLH   
      USS Batfish                                 Submarine                         Muskogee, OK                  WW2SUB 
      USS Nautilus                               Submarine                         Groton, CT                       N1S 
      USS Silversides                           Submarine                         Muskegon, MI                   N8SUB   
      HMUb Nordkaparen                     Submarine                         Gothenburg, Sweden        SL8SUB   
      USS Cavalla                                 Submarine                         Galveston, TX                   KK5W   
      Novosibirskij Komsomolec (B-396) Submarine 641-B          Moscow, Russia              RU3AWK 


17 ships are signed up early this year including the two new ones marked with asterisks.  There were over 100 ships last year and will probably be more than 100 this year as well.  You guys who are hams that have technician licenses still have time to get your General ticket and participate.

I'm just sayin'....
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Re: Museum Ships Weekend 2017
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2017, 04:17:10 PM »
I never knew we had a submarine in Michigan. There's a museum there and you can even sleep overnight in the sub if you want to. It's 155 miles away from me so I could make a day trip out of it if I wanted to but I won't. Still it's nice to know that it's there and veterans get a $2.50 discount. Good luck to the hams on here.
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Re: Museum Ships Weekend 2017
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2017, 11:44:21 AM »
A few years ago we and some friends from church vacationed together and were staying at a neighbor's condo in PCB Florida. One of the guys and I took a day trip over to Mobile, Alabama to the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park.
They have a sub there, the USS Drum, but it was too tight for someone my size and height (I was 70 pounds heavier then) to navigate through, even if my leg would bend like it's supposed to. My friend went through and said about halfway through he started to feel like he was being squeezed.

The USS Alabama is impressive. At 6' 2" tall, even it was tight in spots. I couldn't see as much of it as I would have liked to due to both confines and limited walking distance before my hips start giving me trouble. I toured as much as I could, and would like to go back.

There is also an aviation museum, complete with SR-71 Blackbird (with an additional engine on display).

http://www.ussalabama.com/

 
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Re: Museum Ships Weekend 2017
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2017, 11:15:14 AM »
I've never talked with the guys on the USS Alabama but I have tried....it's an "awkward" distance for me plus my antenna nulls out towards them.

Regardless...it's a great ship to visit and I've been in the sub.  It is small...I would not like being in a tin can like that.  The SR-71 is cool especially the aluminized wheels....though they did not have the extra engine out when I was there last probably 10-12 years ago.

It's on my list again as soon as I make it that way though.

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Re: Museum Ships Weekend 2017
« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2017, 12:55:05 PM »
I'm more curious about the sub in Muskogee Ok. I'm thinking the navigator was not #1in his class.
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Re: Museum Ships Weekend 2017
« Reply #6 on: March 16, 2017, 12:56:40 PM »
Quote from: tombogan03884 on March 16, 2017, 12:55:05 PM
I'm more curious about the sub in Muskogee Ok. I'm thinking the navigator was not #1in his class.

But you got to give him an A+ for finding a water route to get there!
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Re: Museum Ships Weekend 2017
« Reply #7 on: March 18, 2017, 06:51:58 AM »
The sub came up the Arkansas River by courtesy of the US Army Corp of Engineers.  There is a War Memorial Park there and they have a website:  http://warmemorialpark.org/news/

They also have a fire control mast from the USS Oklahoma.  The mast allows them to operate as a museum ship for the USS Oklahoma. 

And the Google aerial view:  https://www.google.com/maps/place/Muskogee+War+Memorial+Park:+Home+of+the+USS+Batfish/@35.7946237,-95.3107919,145m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xb598349524ab6740!8m2!3d35.7937784!4d-95.3105774
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Re: Museum Ships Weekend 2017
« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2017, 12:25:58 PM »
Didn't they run steam boats on the Arkansas river, like the Missouri ?
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Re: Museum Ships Weekend 2017
« Reply #9 on: March 18, 2017, 04:46:33 PM »
Quote from: tombogan03884 on March 18, 2017, 12:25:58 PM
Didn't they run steam boats on the Arkansas river, like the Missouri ?

Absolutely...
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