[Hallicrafters] Hallicrafter user, Thor Heyerdahl obit

[william watson]

Seems to me it was actually a NC173!!!!
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From: "William L Howard" <wlhoward at gte.net>
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Subject: [Hallicrafters] Hallicrafter user, Thor Heyerdahl obit


> I seem to remember an ad that Hallicrafters had saying the S 38 was the
> main radio on the Kon Tiki expedition.
> 
> Thor Heyerdahl died at 87 from cancer, while vacationing in Italy. He
> was living in the Canary Islands.Very well known for his balsa raft
> voyage on the "Kon Tiki" and the immensely successful book which he
> wrote about the voyage, Heyerdahl was already a veteran of South Pacific
> scientific field trips when WWII broke out.
> He spent the war in the free Norwegian forces, primarily as a
> paratrooper.After the war he tried to interest scientists in his theory
> that the islands of the South Pacific could have been originally
> populated by seafarers from South America, travelling east. He got
> little support ,and decided to demonstrate that it could be done.  His
> book describes the difficulties of getting logs from giant balsa trees,
> to make the Kon Tiki raft. He set out with five companions of various
> nations in 1946 and sailed to an island near Tahiti in 101 days. His
> book was translated into 65 languages and made him a sensation. A
> documentary film was made of the trip, and won an Oscar.
> His theories received little acceptance among other scientists, and have
> been rebutted, based on language differences among the ethnic groups
> which were the subject of study.  He also sailed a reed boat "Ra II"
> with a crew from Morocco to Barbados, advancing a theory of migration by
> Egyptians to the western hemisphere, studied the giant statues on Easter
> Island, and was involved in other ethnographic efforts.
> 
> 
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