This is a very interesting thread, during my novice days in the early
1960s, while "shortwave listening",
I copied a CW distress call from a ship, sending that they were taking
on water and lost engine power.
The CW operator sent his position repeatedly, and I copied it several
times to make sure it was correctly
noted, and then telephoned the Eatons Neck, NY US coast guard facility
on Long Island (the nearest one to
me that I knew of), where the duty officer told me he would take care of
this call. He said the coordinates
given were on the Great Lakes.. I have long lost my logs and notes from
those days also..
73, Jim W3KA
On 2016-08-22 12:23, John Bescher via TenTec wrote:
Joe,
1958, that's when I heard the search for the missing freighter. Thanks
for the info on Carl D. Bradley, that must have been the stricken ship
in the search. I often wondered what ship it was. At the time I made
a notation in my "log" but over the years, the logs disappeared.
Thanks.
John, N4DXI
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Papworth via TenTec <tentec@contesting.com>
To: tentec <tentec@contesting.com>
Cc: K8mp <K8mp@aol.com>
Sent: Mon, Aug 22, 2016 10:50 am
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Another famous ship wreck
Hi Duane,
The Carl D. Bradley went down in Lake Michigan on Nov 18th, 1958. Some
years ago, I got to meet the lone survivor at a hall of fame induction
ceremony
at the Great Lakes Lore museum in Rogers City, MI. There were actually
two
who survived the wreck but one died in '70.
http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/04/1958_shipwreck_survivor_will_r.html
Of course "The Fitz" had the most prominent display in the museum.
Joe, K8MP
In a message dated 8/21/2016 11:17:34 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
ac5aa1@gmail.com writes:
"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.
Sent from my iPhone
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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