Loading...

And it says that it was started up, the system was started up in 1921 and went through a number of iterations over the year. This paper was written in 1984 and I think the basis of it, it's like a radio lighthouse system. They had antennas all over the East Coast and the West Coast and the Great Lakes and also in Panama Canal. And you would use a looped antenna to go until you know out the signal from the antenna and it would give you the direction of that beacon and then another beacon you could zero in on and I think you could determine your location. It was a pretty fascinating article. So I took a couple of pictures of that and surprisingly the thing in this, when this paper was written it was still in service and the paper was 1984. I'm sure it's not any longer but anyway, they all had their Morris identifiers, the Thelda Bay station that they went by, they had walked up to it where the antenna used to be and I think it's some kind of environmental group that's taking it over now, whatever, but anyway they all had their Morris code identifiers and that's pretty interesting stuff. I'm sure I've taken up all my time here. Back to you Jack. Thank you for running the net N7AAK. Back to you.