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Old 08-03-2017, 03:28 PM
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True story----My grandmother gave me an old Philco tube radio with a shortwave band. Lived in CT at the time. I was tuning around the band and stopped on 2182 Kilocycles. Heard the original call from the Andrea Doria that it had collided with the Stockholm, near a sea bouy. They kept calling "MAYDAY". I told my dad who called the State Police who called the USCG. They were just hearing it for the first time.. I wish I still had that old radio.
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