Therefore expect a bill for about 978 million in a few days now that we have
your admission!
73
Red K0LUZ
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From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of k2qmf@juno.com
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:22 AM
To: widelitz@gte.net
Cc: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] I Caused the NYC Blackout 40 Years Ago Today
Ken,
I wouldn't feel like your off the hook just yet!!
They still are not sure what caused that black out!!!
73, Ted K2QMF
On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:42:14 -0800 "Ken Widelitz" <widelitz@gte.net>
writes:
> November 9, 1965. I remember it well. It was my mother's birthday. I
> was 15 and a novice, WN2TFK. I couldn't wait to get home from school
> because I was ready to put my coke bottle vertical on the air for the
> 1st time. It was about 30' of aluminum pipe insulated with a big glass
> coke bottle at the bottom, fed through an inductor wrapped around a
> cardboard popcorn container. By the time everything was ready, it was
> starting to get dark. As I touched the feedline to the back of my Eico
> 720, the lights in my bedroom flickered and dimmed. I pulled the wire
> away and the lights brightened to normal. That is really WEIRD, I
> thought. How can that happen. I touched the feedline to the back of
> the radio again. This time, the lights flickered, went off, and stayed
> off. Uh oh. I looked outside. No lights in the entire neighborhood.
> "Mom, I don't know why that happened. All I did way touch the new
> antenna to the back of my transmitter. I'm sorry." We got out the
> transistor AM radio and found that all of NYC was blacked out.
> People were
> stuck on subways, in elevators - all because of me and my antenna.
>
> I didn't find out it wasn't my fault until the next day. Whew!!!
>
> 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT
>
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