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The USS Turner Joy (Charter Member of the Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club) Amateur Radio Club, NS7DD

Discussion in 'Contests, DXpeditions, QSO Parties, Special Events' started by AE7DX, Oct 18, 2021.

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  1. AE7DX

    AE7DX Ham Member QRZ Page

    The USS Turner Joy (Charter Member of the Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club) Amateur Radio Club, NS7DD
    The USS Turner Joy ARC will be operating Veteran's Day 2021.

    Times: 0001z 11/11/21 to 0600z 11/12/21.

    We will be operating SSB, CW, FT8, DMR.


    USS TURNER JOY (DD-951) - SHIP CONSTRUCTION & SPECS
    Class: Forrest Sherman Destroyer
    Built at: Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Company, Seattle, Washington
    Keel laid: September 30, 1957
    Launched: May 5, 1958
    Commissioned: August 3, 1959
    Length: 418.3 feet (127.5 meters)
    Beam: 45.3 feet (13.8 meters)
    Draft: 22 feet (6.7 meters)
    Displacement: 2,800 tons; approx. 4,000 tons full load
    Propulsion system: four-1200 lb. boilers; two steam turbines; two shafts
    Propellers: two
    Speed: 32+ knots
    Armament: Three 5-inch/54 caliber guns and two Mark 32 torpedo launchers that carry 6 Mark 46 torpedoes each.
    Aircraft: none
    Crew: 17 officers, 275 enlisted
    Decommissioned: November 22, 1982
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Turner_Joy
     

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