[ARC5] Another marine radio on the ham bands

[Scott Robinson]

And there's the folk song "Mary Ellen Carter" about raising a sunken 
freighter.

/Scott Robinson

On 11/14/21 6:03 PM, Robert Nickels wrote:
> As a follow-on to Dave's recent posts about the Bendix, here's one you 
> don't see often - a Sea Rad MM-50 made by Multi Products Company of Oak 
> Park MI, aka "Multi Elmac":
> 
> https://tinyurl.com/4rjh4a68
> 
> The eBay seller I got this from said he was told it came off of a Great 
> Lakes ore ship, but there's no proof of that and I haven't been able to 
> trace it's original callsign.   But I fantasize that it's true and every 
> year as 'the gales of November come early' the anniversary of the 
> sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald prompts me to put it on the air.
> 
> I've used it on several local AM nets recently and there is a link at 
> the bottom of the page above where you can listen to my check-in to the 
> DX-60 Net today on 3880 kHz.    The audio is punchy and the band was 
> starting to fade, but not a bad signal for 37 watts at a distance of 328 
> miles a bit after 9AM at the recording location.
> 
> 73, Bob W9RAN
> 
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