"Attention, This is the Battleship USS North Carolina Calling"

From the Dec. 6, 2009, Wilmington (NC) Star-News.

Members of the Azalea Coast Amateur Radio Club spent a day in the radio room aboard the USS North Carolina sending out Morse Code messages, using the original equipment which club members spent eight years restoring.

By the time of Pearl Harbor, Morse Code was almost obsolete, but this is how the military was alerted of the attack.

They do this every year and once contacted Richard E. McCullough of Wrentham, Massachusetts who was the radio operator on the North Carolina during World War II. Unfortunately, he had died in the last few months before this contact.

Bringing Back the Past. --GreGen