[CW] LI2B Kon Tiki

[la5he at otterstad.dk]

Here is the last photo of Torstein Raaby.

We were together on NorthPole expedition i 1964. Torstein died in the tent
at the basecamp

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=8446596494&set=t.732886494&type=3&th
eater

73  Rag  LA5HE

Original email:
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From: D.J.J. Ring, Jr. n1ea at arrl.net
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:31:29 -0500
To: bcarling at cfl.rr.com, cw at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [CW] Reading Kon Tiki


Someone gave me the great big blue book with Kon Tiki on it.  It seemed too
big to read at first, and it had all these technicalities about set and
drift and meetings with all these people, that I put it down for a while.
 But it was big.  I wasn't all that interested in the sea and ships.  But
one day I noticed LI2B and that they had a 7 watt Morse CW transmitter. Now
that is interesting.

The boo was boring in spots - but it picked up amazingly whenever there
were spots talking about the radio.  Those were too small in length for me.

I rejoiced when they were able to contact Rangatouia, Or some place near
that spelling, they were off the north of French Polynesia and were headed
to the more numerous spelling.  I could never figure out from the
discription if they were using a hand crank to power the 7 watt ham radio
set or if they were using a 500 kc/s SOS transmitter to call SOS.

In any event if they had called SOS on the life boat radio set, it would
have been an amazing distance because the nearest location might have been
New Zealand that they could have contacted.

73


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