December 21, 2025
Manned the station at W4AVM on the American Victory ship in Tampa for the Tampa Bay Lighted boat parade. Lots of people on the ship, not many interested in radio except this kid that was super into the morse code paddle, he didn't care about radio just the paddle noise. Mike dressed up for it,…
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October 7, 2022
Received the certificate for making contacts from the American Victory Ship in Tampa Bay, W4AVM back in June. Forgot to post photos when I went there. Here's some: Cruise ship was boarding next to it, lots of people Tug going by W4AVM
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December 8, 2019
While on vacation in Charleston, SC, I saw that they have an aircraft carrier museum ship, the USS Yorktown. It was very close to where we are staying. After activating the SS American Victory for Museum Ships weekend I checked to see if the Yorktown had an amateur radio station. The Charleston…
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June 3, 2019
I saw a post from the SPARC club about the American Victory looking for operators for Museum Ships weekend and quickly volunteered for it. I'd been wanted to check out the station on board since I saw the presentation they gave at the club last year. Amanda and I went over Saturday morning and…
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