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

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