Dick McPherson worked in the radio room of the Nantucket Lightship yesterday, docked in Boston Harbor.
(John Blanding/Globe Staff)
Historic Nantucket Lightship beams
Vessel highlighted in ham radio event
Dick McPherson worked in the radio room of the Nantucket Lightship yesterday, docked in Boston Harbor.
(John Blanding/Globe Staff)
Morse code filled the tiny radio control room of the Nantucket Lightship yesterday as Michael Rioux’s fingers tapped a modern telegraph aboard the National Historic Landmark built in 1936. (Full article: 557 words)
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