[TenTec] Another famous ship wreck
w3ka at lycos.com
w3ka at lycos.com
Mon Aug 22 13:59:09 EDT 2016
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 at contesting.com>
> To: tentec <tentec at contesting.com>
> Cc: K8mp <K8mp at 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 at 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 at ac5aa.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of jones
> winston
> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2016 9:29 PM
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at 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 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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