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KB2VXA > TECH 27.07.16 12:04l 52 Lines 2071 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 21836_VK6ZRT
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Subj: Re: Brief History of Globes
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Sent: 160727/0950Z @:VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC #:21836 [Boyanup] $:21836_VK6ZRT
From: KB2VXA@VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC
To : TECH@WW
Hi all you seafaring navigators,
So, the earliest surviving globe was made in 1492, why am I not surprised?
That's when Columbus discovered an island in the Americas and Martin Behaim, a
German navigator knew the old flat world planks became obsolete and made a
globe. Then Gerard Mercator sliced it up and made a flat map that confused a
ham that will remain nameless who pointed his beam east from New Jersey and
wondered why he lost the signal from England. When he wasn't looking I turned
it northeast and told him propagation just improved. LO firkin L!
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"New Jersey, the most American of all states. It has everything from
wilderness to the Mafia. All the great things and all the worst,
like Route 22."
Jean Shepherd K2ORS (SK) & WOR radio personality
73 de Warren
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Message timed by NIST: 27-Jul-2016 at 09:50 GMT
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