[CW] Great Lakes Radio

[David Ring]

In the USA and Canada we were blessed by a remarkable waterway:  The
Great Lakes.  I find this and the Black Sea both terribly interesting
as they both make accessable remote areas by sea.

Our Mississippi River would also be one of the great wonders of
transportation had not Louisiana put a fairly low clearance bridge
named after Huey Long (113 feet)  just north of the Baton Rouge EXXON
refinery.  The bridges north of this bridge have even lower clearances
- 65 feet. The limiting bridge to the south is the other Huey Long
bridge - this one in Jefferson Parish with a clearance of 153 feet.

Simarly, our Hudson River in New York allows ships to travel from New
York City and the Atlantic to Albany, NY in upstate New York - at the
same latitude as New Hampshire and Vermont!

But North America's crown waterway must be the Great Lakes.

Read about the communications systems on the lakes here:
http://www.imradioha.org/index.htm

Also I have uploaded two videos to the "Sound Files" page the link of
which is on the web home page for this group.

Also I wish to thank R/O Urbano Cavina, author of "Marconisti d'alto
mare", an book about being a sparks on the high seas in Italian for
telling me of two errors in the file names of the sound files.  I have
corrected the links.  Thank you, UC.

73
DR