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During the Spring or Summer of 1972 or 1973 (I can't remember exactly when) a tornado swept over West Lafayette and touched down in Monticello, IN pretty much tearing up the town. All sorts of hams from Purdue headed over to help with the relief effort, including Mel Peterson (WA9???, what WAS his call!?), Ray Hibnick (WA9YYY) and Tom Doligalski (WB9DXK). We set up a headquarters operation in what was left of the firehouse. Someone (Jim Wilson?) climbed the roof to set up antennas. -- TomDoligalski |
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During the Spring or Summer of 1972 or 1973 (I can't remember exactly when) a tornado swept over West Lafayette and touched down in Monticello, IN pretty much tearing up the town. All sorts of hams from Purdue headed over to help with the relief effort, including Mel Peterson (WA9???, what WAS his call!?), Ray Hibnick (WA9YYY) and Tom Doligalski (WB9DXK). We set up a headquarters operation in what was left of the firehouse. Someone (Jim Wilson?) climbed the roof to set up antennas. -- TomDoligalski |
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During the Spring or Summer of 1972 or 1973 (I can't remember exactly when) a tornado swept over West Lafayette and touched down in Monticello, IN pretty much tearing up the town. All sorts of hams from Purdue headed over to help with the relief effort, including MelPeterson (WA9???, what WAS his call!?), RayHibnick (WA9YYY) and TomDoligalski (WB9DXK). We set up a headquarters operation in what was left of the firehouse. JimWilson climbed the roof to set up antennas. -- TomDoligalski |
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This was likely the "Monticello Tornado" from the April 3 1974 super outbreak. -- PatrickMcDonnell |