Bill wrote: When the Liberty Ship Jeremiah O'Brien gets under way in San Francisco Bay there is a YL operator that communicates with KPH from the ship. She is very skilled at sending with a Viproplex bug. (Puts me to shame!)
It is great to hear these commercial CW operators in action. ------------------------------ You're probably thinking of Denise Stoops, the first woman operator at KPH and still active with the radiomarine society. I know of at least one voyage she's made with the O'Brien. You can see and hear her at work recently pounding out good Morse on her bug this YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a4scmlC7tI And in her earlier days (1970's) she is in this photo near the message board at the center of all the guys in the radio room (bottom photo on that page): http://www.radiomarine.org/historic-6.html 73, Ron AC7AC ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
