Battleship Massachusetts Radio Room

I love the collaboration between Battleship Cove & Battleship New Jersey. The history lessons are great.

Your really bringing back memories for me right now. I worked at battleship cove for years from around 2000 till something like 2018. I know Chris well, the radio room tours were always full on overnights, I love seeing the similarities and the changes between the two ships.

I remember learning Morse code at Battleship Cove as a Cub Scout

Thanks and 73! Would like to see the New Jersey's radio rooms as well!

Have enjoyed your Battleship Cove tours greatly. You are certainly taking a wealth of knowledge back to NJ

That last transmitter shown in the first row was the same one I learned transmitter tuning in a college I attended.Was asked to tune it-never seen or touched this before-Tuned just like the transmitters in the "book".Also they had the old Sarkes Tarzan Ch#2 VHF TV transmitter-and tuned that one as well.Worked with both on a class project.The rectifiers had to be replaced in the ST TV transmitter.Got it working.The HF unit with its MG set-you could sort of tune it by the sound of its genset.Would change tone when the RF stages were properly tuned.Until now didn't know that set was used on ships.

Fyi. VHF = very high frequency UHF =ultra high frequency HAM = high amplitude modulation. FM =frequency modulation AM = amplitude modulation. Thanks grandma, a long time ham operator and red cross officer Kb6lhr. My grandpa Wa6zfe

I can smell the ship from here, I haven't been in years.

I Didn`t know that they had Iambic paddle Keys for sending Morse as early as back then. Brilliant presentation, thank you.

I've been there a couple of times with our Ham club to "Activate the Ship" for "Museum ships On the air"...which is an Amateur radio special event where Hams can Make contacts with Different museum ships all over the world. While we didn't operate the original equipment But we had a lot of fun operating there! BTW the typewriter In NAVY Speak is called a "MILL" an all capitals typewriter, as that's how all messages were dispatched until Very recently sometime in the 90's if i remember correctly.73'Jim KB1PFL

As a kid in the 60s and 70s, I would have old WWII radio equipment given to me, as it was obsolete and usually not working. In many cases, I was able to repair and get the stuff working! While I didn't have a license, I would use a light bulb to transmit into to make sure the transmitter was working right! Usually, I would trade or sell the stuff off after getting it up and running. It's tough to find such equipment today, as it was scrapped or stuck in someones closet gathering dust! I would love operating such a station, but I would have to hone my CW skills back to what they once were!

Look at all those tubes!👀 Its like analog Shangri-La! I can only imagine how loud it must get in there with all the motor-generator sets running! Not to mention hot!

Fascinating. I really enjoy this type of rarely discussed aspects of the ship. I'd love to see a discussion of how they disseminated operation orders throughout the fleet during WWII. I can't imagine that they used HF radios, but it's also hard to imagine the hundreds of ships at Okinawa getting hard copies all at the same time.

Growing up in MA I visited the Massachusetts a number of times. Can't wait to get down to NJ again though!

Just now seeing this, really enjoyed it

Thank you.

Thank you for making this interesting and educational video. :-)

Very cool, thanks for sharing

I toured the Alabama following the Commissioning of USS Princeton CG59 at Ingles shipbuilding in Pascagoula Mississippi. tours were restricted to topside only on the new ship so I took my parents to what was available and close.

Surprised that there was no radioteletype gear shown. I'm sure it was in use for fleet broadcast. 23 years Army ground-pounder signal officer. Maybe RATT and Crypto was removed by the Navy? Learning more Navy every daay, thanks Ryan.