The Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Nov. 10, 1975 in Lake Superior.
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> On Aug 21, 2016, at 10:07 PM, Duane Calvin <ac5aa1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It wasn't the Edmund Fitzgerald, memorialized by Gordon Lightfoot's song,
> was it?
>
> 73, Duane (now we're really getting off-topic!)
>
>
> Duane Calvin, AC5AA
> Austin, Texas
> ac5aa@ac5aa.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of John
> Bescher via TenTec
> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2016 7:20 PM
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Cc: John Bescher <n4dxi@aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Entry levels for Boys.
>
>
> I remember as if yesterday the many thrilling stations I heard on my old AM
> broadcast receiver that had short wave bands and stations like BBC marked on
> the dial. This was back in 10th grade, I'd get up at 4 am to listen to
> stations roaring into my New Jersey home from hundreds and thousands of
> miles away. Even then, I knew 80 meters was a night time band and
> especially good in the early morning.
>
>
> It was an old AM broadcast radio with a wooden cabinet, built in speaker,
> not even a band spread or any sort of filter, but it had shortwave
> capability. The old receiver worked especially well, I thought at the time,
> when connected to an external wire antenna strung on a 20 foot Birch Tree
> "tower" that my Dad had cut down for me and erected outside my bedroom
> window.
>
>
>
> One morning before day break I heard a search for a freighter on the Great
> Lakes. The Coast Guard cutters' conversations were booming in around 3
> megacycles. An ore carrying freighter was missing in a violent storm. I
> could hear the strain of the Coast Guard transmissions, querying other ships
> whether there was any sight of the freighter through the gloom and driving
> rain. I listened until the sun came up and the band faded away. The ship
> was never found, I read in the papers several days later. The search was
> abandoned.
>
>
> No future television program was ever as exciting as that morning long ago.
>
>
> 73....John Bescher, N4DXI
>
>
>
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