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Ham Radio Connects with Historic Ships Around the World:

Posted: 04 Jun 2013 05:39 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/30262


BILLINGS -- The USS Pampanito, the USS Hornet and the USS North Carolina
were just a few of the contacts made during Museum Ships Weekend. The
Yellowstone Radio Club communicated with ham radio operators in San
Francisco, Alameda, California and Wilmington, North Carolina over the
weekend. A club in New Jersey organized the two-day event at the US Naval
Reserve Training Center in Billings, that draws Ham Radio operators and
clubs all over the world - with the goal of communicating with historic
ships docked or at museums. "A lot of them are museum ships that are not
navy ships," said Dennis Tulp, a ham radio operator with the Yellowstone
Radio Club and a US Navy veteran. "They're anywhere from ore carriers, a
lot them have been lost in the great lakes, every type of ship is
represented."