[QCWA] Fwd: Old Ham Radio Movie

[Richard Rucker]

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From: Iain McFadyen <mcfadyenusa at yahoo.com>
Date: October 14, 2007 12:51:22 PM EDT

Did you hear about our local personality K2VX's similar real-life  
story about 12-18 months ago?

Dave was prescribed too much medication, and he had an incident in  
the middle of a HF traffic net. An old friend of his, (in NY state, I  
think), spotted the change in his CW 'fist', and when they couldn't  
raise him, called the authorities to make a house-call to check on him.

Ask Dave Wiesen about it next time you see him  :-)

Iain

> Dave's response to a similar reply from John Transue was:
>
> "I sure did. But I can see them changing CW to phone. "CW fist" too  
> much to explain.
>
> David"


--- Richard Rucker <rrucker at verizon.net> wrote:

>> Begin forwarded message:
>> From: "Ian" <ik7565 at verizon.net>
>> Date: October 13, 2007 7:22:57 PM EDT
>>
>> Subject: Old Ham Radio Movie
>>
>> Here's the rest of the story. Clyde de Vinna's carbon monoxide  
>> poisoning was not recognized by his verbal cries for help.  He  
>> wasn’t on phone, he was on a key at the time and his sloppy fist  
>> is what caused the other op to realize something was wrong. See  
>> Chapter 5 of Clinton DeSoto's "Calling CQ" at http://www.qsl.net/ 
>> ng3p/haminfo/desoto/chap5.html
>>
>>
>> Long live CW.
>>
>> 73, Ian N8IK
>> *****************************************************
>>
>> Here is some interesting history:
>>
>> A short distributed by Metro Goldwyn Meyer in 1939. (?)
>>
>> It's about 10 minutes long.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBGIdf0VjQ4
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