[CW] Great Lakes Radio

[David Curry]

Hi David--

The number of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes is pretty astounding--I  
wonder how many could have been saved if radio communications had  
been available in the 1800s and early 1900s? Anyway, there are  
numerous websites devoted to Great Lakes shipwrecks. This page has a  
pdf map that can be downloaded showing the Lake Erie losses: http:// 
www.ohioshipwrecks.org/ShipwreckMap.php

The Griffith went down (fire) offshore not far from my QTH back in  
the 1800s. All were lost. If I recall correctly from the memorial  
marker, it was a passenger ship out of Buffalo headed for Toledo.

73
Dave
KB8TT


On Jun 16, 2008, at 3:26 PM, David Ring wrote:

> 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
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