You should see the ham club's metal boat....the USS Yorktown (CV-10)
Naval Museum at Patriot's Point in Charleston. Their ground is a WHOLE
AIRCRAFT CARRIER! Signal reports read like we were a 50KW broadcast
flamethrower...(c; Club callsign is WA4USN (United States Navy), of
course...

Larry W4CSC....for Charleston South Carolina

Hey Larry,

Here is a bit of trivia for you.
Who welded the name on the CV 10 while she was at the Bremerton
shipyard geting refit for jets and Korea?


Bob

On Jul 5, 9:58 am, Bob wrote:
You should see the ham club's metal boat....the USS Yorktown (CV-10)
Naval Museum at Patriot's Point in Charleston. Their ground is a WHOLE
AIRCRAFT CARRIER! Signal reports read like we were a 50KW broadcast
flamethrower...(c; Club callsign is WA4USN (United States Navy), of
course...

Larry W4CSC....for Charleston South Carolina

Hey Larry,

Here is a bit of trivia for you.
Who welded the name on the CV 10 while she was at the Bremerton
shipyard geting refit for jets and Korea?

Bob

Bob wrote:
snip
Here is a bit of trivia for you.
Who welded the name on the CV 10 while she was at the Bremerton
shipyard geting refit for jets and Korea?

Easy, it was some yardbird.

Jack

Bob wrote in news:1183654729.967270.60960
@q69g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:


You should see the ham club's metal boat....the USS Yorktown (CV-10)
Naval Museum at Patriot's Point in Charleston. Their ground is a WHOLE
AIRCRAFT CARRIER! Signal reports read like we were a 50KW broadcast
flamethrower...(c; Club callsign is WA4USN (United States Navy), of
course...

Larry W4CSC....for Charleston South Carolina

Hey Larry,

Here is a bit of trivia for you.
Who welded the name on the CV 10 while she was at the Bremerton
shipyard geting refit for jets and Korea?


Bob



You did....but I wasn't going to bring it up about the fire....(c;

Larry
--
While in Mexico, I didn't have to press 1 for Spanish.

It just isn't fair.

On Jul 5, 6:08 pm, Larry wrote:
Bob wrote in news:1183654729.967270.60960
@q69g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:







You should see the ham club's metal boat....the USS Yorktown (CV-10)
Naval Museum at Patriot's Point in Charleston. Their ground is a WHOLE
AIRCRAFT CARRIER! Signal reports read like we were a 50KW broadcast
flamethrower...(c; Club callsign is WA4USN (United States Navy), of
course...

Larry W4CSC....for Charleston South Carolina

Hey Larry,

Here is a bit of trivia for you.
Who welded the name on the CV 10 while she was at the Bremerton
shipyard geting refit for jets and Korea?

Bob

You did....but I wasn't going to bring it up about the fire....(c;

Larry


Naa, it was my mom.

She also built Liberty ships in WW2 at the JA Jones yard in GA. Her
name is Rebecca. Just a litle triva for the guys back on the Yorktown.
Bob

Bob wrote in news:1183703990.019847.151540
@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com:

Naa, it was my mom.

She also built Liberty ships in WW2 at the JA Jones yard in GA. Her
name is Rebecca. Just a litle triva for the guys back on the Yorktown.
Bob



Next time I'm in the Yorktown office, I'll tell them. They love those
stories....(c;

Tell Mom she's STILL a great ship....

Larry
--
While in Mexico, I didn't have to press 1 for Spanish.
While in Iran, I didn't have to press 1 for Farsi, either.
It just isn't fair.