[TenTec] Entry levels for Boys.

[jones winston]

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 at 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 at ac5aa.com 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of John
> Bescher via TenTec
> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2016 7:20 PM
> To: tentec at contesting.com
> 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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