[50mhz] Clint and the MM contacts...

[Ray Brown]

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From: "Christopher Boone" <CBoone@Earthlink.Net>

> Ray Brown wrote:
>
> >   Which reminds me, we used to have a fellow drop by once in a while that was the
> > captain of a petroleum tanker. He would mention his route over a certain time frame,
> > and it was fun to make W1LM / MM contacts with him while he was in the Gulf of
> > Mexico or up or down the Atlantic or Pacific sea coasts. (MM is Maritime Mobile,
> > pretty rare grid squares but they count towards your VHF/UHF Century Club count)
> > So, a mobile to MM contact is really nice! :-)
>
> BTW , news on W1LP (W1LM is a club call)...Clint's ship was sold to a
> firm in India who ran it aground on the Columbia River in Oregon and it
> was scrapped....so Clint is land locked for now until he can get on
> another ship :(

  Oh, man. That stinks!! Well, with the price of gas going up, I'm sure that he'll
be in demand very quickly. (I hope!)

> He used to run a lot in the Gulf Coast...heard him on a local rptr in
> the Port Arthur TX area (my home area) once in his stays...

  Never worked him on a repeater, just SSB. Got at least 4 grids from him, probably
more if I ever get time to work on my QSO cards from *last* year...
(looking at calendar) Oh, crud...

  :-)

                _Ray_        KB�STN