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[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

W5PEH, Pete, just announced he has two Blue Racers from 1913 or so for Dave.

Lovely, keys, and speaking of old Blue Racers, W0BMU, Tex had one, and he
scratched the name of his barge on the base. Ships and I learned barges
also had four letter call signs, aircraft had five letter call signs and
land stations in Morse had three letter call signs.  Ships, barges and
broadcast stations all shared the four letter call sign pool.

W0BMU, Tex, was radio officer on a barge!  On a barge on the Eire Canal in
1916, he used to say he had a LES, a Lake Erie Swing (LES), but I always
corrected him and told him he had a Lake Erie CANAL Swing!  He loved
hearing that, he'd laugh and laugh. The barge call was carved into the
key.  He was 16 years old when he was Sparks.

Here's some short recordings of Tex and his LES bug fist, the gang didn't
understand how important these recordings would be, they're short and the
others got impatient waiting for Tex to finish sending.

https://archive.org/details/W0bmuHowardtexHarveyW0bmu

73

DR
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