Thanks for the participation in the WMAL Tour

[Philip Miller Tate]

On 19 Mar 2011, at 00:36, fgentges at mindspring.com wrote:

> tacoistas,
>
> We enjoyed the tour and it is interesting to note how WMAL is the  
> oldest AM station in the area.
>
> While I was glowing with pride about the significance of our tour  
> and its role in history I received a more remarkable historical  
> account from Paul, K4MSG on the LARG reflector.
>
> Frank K0BRA
>
> Copper Wire...
>
>     After having dug to a  depth of 30 feet last year, New York  
> scientists found  traces of copper wire dating back 200 years and  
> came to the  conclusion that their ancestors already had a  
> telephone network more than 200 years ago.
>
>     Not to be outdone by the New  Yorkers, a California  
> archaeologist dug  to a depth of 40 feet and shortly after, a story  
> in the LA Times read:  "California archaeologists' discovery of 250  
> year old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already  
> had an advanced high-tech communications network fifty years  
> earlier than the  New Yorkers."
>
>     One week later, a local newspaper in Tennessee reported the  
> following: "After digging as deep as 50 feet in his pasture near  
> Delbarton,West Virginia,  Bubba, a  self-taught archaeologist,  
> reported that he found absolutely nothing. Bubba has therefore  
> concluded that 300 years ago, West Virginia, ahead of everyone  
> else, had already gone wireless."
>
>     This was received from my XYL's cousin in Princeton, WV, who  
> closed it by saying, "Boy, it just makes me proud to be from West  
> Virginia!"   ;-)
>

Yeah, but everyone knows that copper wire was invented 350 years ago  
by two Scotsmen fighting over a penny.

Phil M1GWZ


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