[600MRG] Night of Nights - enjoyed

[Carl]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Cromwell" <wrcromwell at gmail.com>
To: <600mrg at w7ekb.com>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: [600MRG] Night of Nights - enjoyed


> On 07/15/2013 09:18 AM, KB6YNO wrote:
>> Bill,
>>
>> You didn't hear WCC because that station wasn't on the air and hasn't 
>> between for years using CW. Shipcom was keying WLO & KLB. Radiomarine no 
>> longer keys WCC. That line was disconnected when KPH closed in 1998.
>>
>> As far as I know, Globe Wireless has no interest in participating in N o 
>> N. They are the current owner of the callsign, which is used by one of 
>> their email stations in MD.
>>
>> The receiver site us now used by the city of Chatham: 
>> http://chathammarconi.org/HistoryCMMCSite.html.
>>
>> Eric, KB6YNO
>>
>> Sent from my phone. Typoz expected.
>>
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> There was talk of WCC having been aired by a pirate. I was only mentioning 
> that I hadn't heard it. Sadly, there are some good things that we are just 
> not going to get back. But what's this? An email station in Bahst'n? Now 
> I'm going on a hunt for...WCC. What's an email station? How does it 
> operate? Email on radio?
>
> Several times I heard of Landlubbers (actually I did serve aboard a Navy 
> destroyer) intervening when ships at sea ran into trouble. Many other 
> instances of sending correspondence to various ships at various times 
> similar to QSL cards (on steroids) with replies and even souvenirs back 
> from the ships. I did follow the progress of some ships form time to time 
> but didn't follow on with personal correspondence. Mostly because there 
> gaps in my "reception reports due to an aggressive work schedule. Now I 
> have the time they're just not there any more.
>
> 73,
>
> Bill  KU8H


My interest in maritime frequencies started with the wreck of the SS Flying 
Enterprise and her skipper Capt Kurt Carlsen who operated as W2ZXM/MM with 
his homebrew AM KW. I was still too young to have heard him live but 
recordings were plentiful.
Since he lived in NJ the news and TV on the NYC stations were full of 
stories.

I later had the pleasure of working Kurt several times aboard the SS Flying 
Enterprise II which I believe was all Collins gear.

Carl
KM1H