[MRCA] [ARC5] Night of Nights Commemorative Msgs - Ghost Ship WJMV Sea Venture?

[Christopher Bowne]

A posting re the Night of Nights on amfone.net said that WLO was heard working WJMV, and someone else put a post up to a link for a ship spotting web site that IDed the ship with that call as the SEA VENTURE, a chemical tanker that we would see in the Thames River all the time bringing polystyrene up to the Dow Chemical plant in Gales Ferry, CT.  The odd thing is that SEA VENTURE was taken out of service and was sold for scrap a couple of years ago, so how did that call show up last night?  Some sort of really long delayed propagation, or more likely, did someone pick up that call under a special FCC authorization to use for special ops such as Night of Nights?



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 From: David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>
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Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2013 1:25 AM
Subject: [ARC5] Night of Nights Commemorative Msgs
 

Here are the "Night of Nights"
 Commemorative Messages
as I copied them by ear and hand.
Misspelled words were written down as sent.
Hard to write that fast ;-)
Please note I had some interferance during message NR4
and missed a little text.  Would appreciate a fill.

73 DE Dave AB5S
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CODH NR1 CKNC SAN FRANCISCO RADIO 13 JULY BT
DEAR GRANDAD X I MISS YOU A GREAT DEAL X
PLEASE TAKE CARE OF GIF UNTIL I SEE YOU AGAIN
BT
YOUR GRANDSON KEN WA4SQN AR

CODH NR2 CKNC SAN FRANCISCO RADIO
13 JULY BT
GREETINGS TO ALL HAM RADIO OPERATORS
AND MARINE RADIO OPERATORS, ESPECIALLY TO ANYONE OUT THERE WHO MAY HAVE WORKED
WITH, OR REMEMBERS BOB MCGRAW, W2LYH FROM ITT MARINE RADIO AT SOUTHAMPTON NY AND RCA COMMUNICATIONS AT RIVERHEAD AND ROCKY POINT NY.  FROM HIS DAUGHTER JONI ELLSWORTH IN NORTH AUGUSTA, SC.
AR

CODH NR3 CKNC SAN FRANCISCO RADIO
13 JULY
BT
GREETINGS TO ALL CURRENT AND FORMER
 MILITARY, SHIP, SHORE AND AMATEUR MORSE
OPERATORS.  I SEND THIS MESSAGE TO HONOR THE
MEMORIES OF MY GRANDFATHER, WILKIE MILLER, SR,
W0UFC, UNCLE, WILKIE MILLER, JR, W0FJP AND ELMERS
CARL HALL, W0HF AND GUY WILSON, W0APG.
MORSE FOREVER.  73
BT
TOM STOUGH, W0UFC, THOUSAND OAKS, CA USA
AR

CODH NR4 CKNC SAN FRANCISCO RADIO
13 JULY
BT WITH MUCH PRIDE THIS MESSAGE IS SENT IN MEMORY
OF MY SON - NOW SILENT KEY - MATTHEW D. THOMASON, III, AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR
K4FQG.  WITH LOVE ( missing text ) DAD
BT
MATTHEW D. THOMASON, JR.  K4FQF
AR

CODH NR5 CKNC SAN FRANCISCO RADIO
13 JULY
BT
THIS MESSAGE IS SENT IN HONOR OF WILLIAM RYDER
W1KL NOW NEINTY TWO, WHO WAS TECHNICIAN IN CHARGE AT THE WCC TRANSMITTER SITE FOR THRITY SIX YEARS
BT
BOB RYDER N1MFW, OPERATIONS MANAGER,
CHATHAM MARCONI MARITIME
 CENTER
AR
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