"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A
73, Duane (OK, I'll quit now . . .)
Duane Calvin, AC5AA
Austin, Texas
ac5aa@ac5aa.com
-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of jones
winston
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2016 9:29 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Entry levels for Boys.
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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