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From: LU9DCEDate: Tue, 05 May 26 10:00:00 Z
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Subject: SCARY RADIO TALE 05-MAY
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ELIAS SAT IN HIS BASEMENT RADIO SHACK, THE GLOW OF THE KENWOOD TS-990
THE ONLY LIGHT. 3 AM, RAIN POUNDING THE ROOF. HED BEEN A HAM FOR 30
YEARS, NEVER HEARD ANYTHING LIKE THIS. HED JUST FINISHED A CQ CALL ON
14.200 MHZ WHEN A VOICE CRACKLED BACK: "CQ, CQ, THIS IS K1LIZ, OVER."
ELIAS FROZE. K1LIZ WAS HIS WIFE LIZS CALL SIGN. SHED DIED 14 MONTHS
AGO, CRUSHED BY A FALLING TOWER DURING A SPRING STORM WHILE THEY WERE
PUTTING UP A NEW 40-METER DIPOLE. HED LET HER LICENSE EXPIRE, THE
CALLSIGN SILENT SINCE HER FUNERAL.
"K1LIZ, THIS IS N1ELI, DO YOU COPY?" HE STAMMERED.
STATIC HISSED, THEN HER VOICE, CLEAR AS THE DAY SHE LEFT: "ELIAS, THE
TOWERS DOWN. COME HELP ME. ITS SO COLD UP HERE. OVER."
HE RAN TO THE BACK YARD, FLASHLIGHT CUTTING THROUGH THE RAIN. THE
40-METER TOWER LAY ON THE WET GRASS, EXACTLY WHERE IT HAD FALLEN A
YEAR AGO. BUT THERE, PERCHED ON THE TOP OF THE TWISTED STEEL, WAS LIZS
HANDHELD RADIO, ITS SCREEN GLOWING: "TRANSMITTING: K1LIZ".
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