USS Missouri and R-390A
 

Visited the USS Missouri at Pearl Harbor last week. In the giant ship's
communication center, I saw an R-390A prominently featured in the radio
stack. This ship was refitted during the 80's for $500 million. I suppose
the Collins was integrated at that time. I have a picture if anyone's
interested.

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Brian Denley
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USS Missouri and R-390A
 

They should have taken whatever steps necessary to put the USS Missouri
on the Riverfront in St.Louis,Missouri,even if it meant disasembling
parts of that great Ship and then putting it back together again.
Raise your heads and hold em high!,Mighty Mo is passing by!
cuhulin

USS Missouri and R-390A
 

www.devilfinder.com USS Missouri Photos Radios

How would y'all like to have a Radio room like that? Check em out.
cuhulin

USS Missouri and R-390A
 

Hi Brian,
I would love to see a picture(s) of the radio room on the Missouri
Please e-mail to me by removing nospam
or have you posted the pic on your website?

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"Brian Denley" wrote in message
...
Visited the USS Missouri at Pearl Harbor last week. In the giant ship's
communication center, I saw an R-390A prominently featured in the radio
stack. This ship was refitted during the 80's for $500 million. I
suppose the Collins was integrated at that time. I have a picture if
anyone's interested.

--
Brian Denley
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html

USS Missouri and R-390A
 

I want to see the USS Missouri pictures too.
cuhulin

USS Missouri and R-390A
 

On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 23:22:11 -0500, wrote:

They should have taken whatever steps necessary to put the USS Missouri
on the Riverfront in St.Louis,Missouri,even if it meant disasembling
parts of that great Ship and then putting it back together again.
Raise your heads and hold em high!,Mighty Mo is passing by!
cuhulin

I visited the Missouri when it was moored in San Francisco. (I think
there were plans to put it there permanently, which might have been a
good tourist attraction - as if SF needs more tourist attractions -
but there were too many antis.)

Of course, most famously, it is where the Emperor of Japan signed the
surrender papers in 1945 ending WWII - Appamatox Court House with
rudders.

(At least the Hiroshima [first] atom bomb probably saved more Japanese
lives [noit to mention the Americans who would have been killed in an
invasion] than the number of people it killed although it was also a
warning to Stalin which, thanks to his spies, he didn't really need.)

Has the Missouri ever actually been to Missouri? Getting a battleship
a thousand or more miles up a river, even the mighty Mississippi
(without taking it apart) must be impossible.

Remember the nom de plume of Samuel Clemens. 12 feet deep (Mark Twain)
was a good depth if you were piloting a riverboat on the Mississippi
in the middle of the 19th century.

USS Missouri and R-390A
 

I visited the Missouri when it was moored in San Francisco. (I think
there were plans to put it there permanently, which might have been a
good tourist attraction - as if SF needs more tourist attractions -
but there were too many antis.)
I recall the Missouri being moored in SF for a short time. One of the
reasons advanced by the people of that city for not making SF the permanent
home was that in the event of a nuclear missile attack, the Missouri would
be a prime first strike target!!! I was living in the Bay area at the time
and could not believe that this ludicrous argument was put forth.

Ron
It would have been a great tourist attraction.
..

USS Missouri and R-390A
 

I don't know where USS Missouri was built,(but I sure am going to
www.devilfinder.com it) I presume to assume some large,very
large,parts of USS Missouri did come down the Mississippi River on
Barges www.bargeamerica.com to wherever she was built.The Great
State of Missiouri (www.hometownfreepress.com MISSOURI) deserves to
have USS Missouri on the St.Louis,Missouri Riverfront.My old buddy was
in the U.S.Navy,he spent four years on the USS Ticonderoga.
www.devilfinder.com USS Ticonderoga
(ok,so I was in the U.S.Army,but U.S.Army travels on it's stomach,we do
the real work,the dirty work grin
cuhulin

USS Missouri and R-390A
 

wrote:

I don't know where USS Missouri was built,(but I sure am going to
www.devilfinder.com it)

New York Naval Shipyard.

I've was on board the Iowa and the Wisconsin several times when they were in
mothballs in Philadelphia (though we had to sneak on board).

dxAce
Michigan
USA

USS Missouri and R-390A
 

"Brian Denley" wrote:

Visited the USS Missouri at Pearl Harbor last week. In the giant ship's
communication center, I saw an R-390A prominently featured in the radio
stack. This ship was refitted during the 80's for $500 million. I suppose
the Collins was integrated at that time. I have a picture if anyone's
interested.

I worked the Missouri "KH6BB" via SSB nov 11 02
rst was 5-3 from Royal Oak,Mi

USS Missouri and R-390A
 

I know St.Louis as well as I know the back o' me hand,as well as I know
me home here in Jackson,Mississippi.I used to have me a girlfriend who
lived in Kirkwood,Missouri.(St.Louis metro area,West/Southside down Big
Bend Blvd) USS Missouri needs to be at the St.Louis Riverfront (I can't
afford to go to Hawaii) so I can step up (I live about 500 miles South
[[South is always best]] of St.Louis) the Mississippi River and visit
(that ain't no hill for a stepper like me to climb) USS
Missouri.Besides,in Hawaii,there aren't nothing mostly but Pineapples.
cuhulin

USS Missouri and R-390A
 

Good on yer,,, dxAce,,, you salty old U.S.Navy dude.I Salute you,Sir!
One hand snappy Salute,, throw it off like a hot potato.
An old guy was once Horseshoeing a Horse,, that Horse liked to bite him
on his shoulder.He put a hot potato under his shirt,, he cured that
Horse.
cuhulin

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wrote:
I want to see the USS Missouri pictures too.
cuhulin

No problem but that link you posted had them all, even the radio I
photographed last week.

I refer to www.devilfinder.com USS Missouri Photos Radios


Do you still want me to send the one I took?

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USS Missouri and R-390A
 

wrote:
I want to see the USS Missouri pictures too.
cuhulin

No problem but the link you posted: www.devilfinder.com USS Missouri
Photos Radios
had all the same photos that I took. Do you still want me to send mine to
you?

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http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html

USS Missouri and R-390A
 

dxAce wrote:
wrote:

I don't know where USS Missouri was built,(but I sure am going to
www.devilfinder.com it)

New York Naval Shipyard.

I've was on board the Iowa and the Wisconsin several times when they
were in mothballs in Philadelphia (though we had to sneak on board).

dxAce
Michigan
USA

The story behind the choice of the USS Missouri as the ship used to accept
the Japanese surrender is interesting: FDR had chosen the USS Pennsylvania
for that purpose before he died since there was no USS New York (his state)
and Penn was the nearesty state with a battleship. After FDR died and
Truman became president, Harry changed the designated ship to the USS
Missouri for the obvious reason that he was from that state. Presidential
privilege!

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USS Missouri and R-390A
 

Actually this radio was overhauled by Rick Mish. I donated it to the USS
Missouri as the radio room looked positively gutted by the navy. I donated
several other radios of different times historically to try to help out a
very good cause. I have not had the chance to get to Honolulu and see the
final result but would be interested in stories from visitors

Mike Taylor
AL1N

"John Plimmer" wrote in message
...
Hi Brian,
I would love to see a picture(s) of the radio room on the Missouri
Please e-mail to me by removing nospam
or have you posted the pic on your website?

--
John Plimmer, Montagu, Western Cape Province, South Africa
South 33 d 47 m 32 s, East 20 d 07 m 32 s
RX Icom IC-756 PRO III with MW mods
Drake SW8 & ERGO software
Sony 7600D GE SRIII
BW XCR 30, Braun T1000, Sangean 818 & 803A.
GE circa 50's radiogram
Antenna's RF Systems DX 1 Pro, Datong AD-270
Kiwa MW Loop
http://www.dxing.info/about/dxers/plimmer.dx

"Brian Denley" wrote in message
...
Visited the USS Missouri at Pearl Harbor last week. In the giant ship's
communication center, I saw an R-390A prominently featured in the radio
stack. This ship was refitted during the 80's for $500 million. I
suppose the Collins was integrated at that time. I have a picture if
anyone's interested.

--
Brian Denley
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html

USS Missouri and R-390A
 

Michael Taylor wrote:
Actually this radio was overhauled by Rick Mish. I donated it to the
USS Missouri as the radio room looked positively gutted by the navy.
I donated several other radios of different times historically to try
to help out a very good cause. I have not had the chance to get to
Honolulu and see the final result but would be interested in stories
from visitors
Mike Taylor
AL1N

Mike:
I was there in September. The 'radio room' is in what the tour guide
referred to as the 'command and communications center' or something like
that. I have sevral pics of that room if you're interested. The entire
setup looked pretty nice with lots of electronics and navigation gear. As
an SWLer, the R-390A caught my eye immediately.
Brian

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