[TenTec] Another famous ship wreck

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Mon Aug 22 18:56:03 EDT 2016 

Thanks Gary. Bowling Green State Univ (Ohio)
has a huge archive of Great Lakes history.
I found part of my grandfather's work record there. Sorry, I don't have the link.
Joe, K8MP

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-----Original Message-----
From: GARY HUBER <GLHuber at msn.com>
To: tentec <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Mon, Aug 22, 2016 02:39 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Another famous ship wreck


You might try the following site and scroll around for an entry matching 
your recollection of the year.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_the_Great_Lakes" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_the_Great_Lakes</a>

73 ES DX,
Gary - AB9M

On 8/22/2016 12:59 PM, <a href="mailto:w3ka at lycos.com">w3ka at lycos.com</a> wrote:
> 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 <<a href="mailto:tentec at contesting.com">tentec at contesting.com</a>>
>> To: tentec <<a href="mailto:tentec at contesting.com">tentec at contesting.com</a>>
>> Cc: K8mp <<a href="mailto:K8mp at aol.com">K8mp at aol.com</a>>
>> 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.
>> <a href="http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/04/1958_shipwreck_survivor_will_r.html" target="_blank">http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/04/1958_shipwreck_survivor_will_r.html</a> 
>>
>>
>> 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,
>> <a href="mailto:ac5aa1 at gmail.com">ac5aa1 at gmail.com</a> writes:
>>
>> "The  Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
>> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A</a>
>>
>> 73, Duane  (OK, I'll quit now . . .)
>>
>> Duane  Calvin, AC5AA
>> Austin, Texas
>> <a href="mailto:ac5aa at ac5aa.com">ac5aa at ac5aa.com</a>
>>
>> -----Original  Message-----
>> From: TenTec [<a href="mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com?">mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com</a>] On Behalf Of jones
>> winston
>> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2016 9:29 PM
>> To: Discussion  of Ten-Tec Equipment <<a href="mailto:tentec at contesting.com">tentec at contesting.com</a>>
>> 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 <<a href="mailto:ac5aa1 at gmail.com">ac5aa1 at gmail.com</a>> 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
>>> <a href="mailto:ac5aa at ac5aa.com">ac5aa at ac5aa.com</a>
>>>
>>> -----Original  Message-----
>>> From: TenTec [<a href="mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com?">mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com</a>] On  Behalf Of John
>>> Bescher via TenTec
>>> Sent: Sunday, August 21,  2016 7:20 PM
>>> To: <a href="mailto:tentec at contesting.com">tentec at contesting.com</a>
>>> Cc: John Bescher  <<a href="mailto:n4dxi at aol.com">n4dxi at aol.com</a>>
>>> 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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