Welcome to the K1USN Radio Club

Welcome you to the K1USN Radio Club's home page.
 For updated information come back again soon. The tower is going up, 
 and the equipment is going in.

The K1USN Radio Club, a none profit group of radio hobbyists, became affiliated with the 
Braintree Historical Society and has set up an Amateur Radio Station at the Watson Library
and Research Center, pictured above, located at 85 Quincy Avenue, Braintree, Ma. 02184.
The Center is open 10:00 A.M.- 4:30 P.M. Saturday, Sunday, & Monday.
Thanks to the kindness of the Braintree Historical Society we again have a place to set up
our station.


The club will demonstrate the Amateur Radio Hobby to local school children and will
provide historical displays of radio apparatus used by early HAM radio operators and
Navy shipboard operators.



Please join us in this important endeavor. We will operate K1USN and be heard on the airways 
again. We will plan fun events both related to HAM radio and not involving HAM radio.

K1USN is located at the site of the Fore River Ship and Engine Company which
was started and owned by Thomas Watson who built ships during the late 1800's and early 1900's.

A couple of notable ships built at this site were the USS St. Lawrence DD-8 (Launched 1900)

shown below

and the lightship Diamond Shoals (Launched 1900)below.

In 1901, the site was moved down the river and became the Fore River Shipyard which no
longer exists.
The call sign K 1 'United States Navy' is appropriate because at this site many early Navy 
destroyers and cruisers were built.

K1USN Operations

Email the Club K1USN with your opinions or questions.
Last edited on September 28, 20076