[TenTec] Entry levels for Boys.

[Duane Calvin]

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 at ac5aa.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of John
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Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2016 7:20 PM
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Cc: John Bescher <n4dxi at 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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