Re: [IRCA] DX ALERT! Thousands left homeless after transmitter explodes.

["Konnie Rychalsky" <dxbox87@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Blast Heard here in Connecticut, please QSL with newspaper clipping as soon 
as doing-time is on your side :)


>From: Charles A Taylor <MWDXer@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of 
>America<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of 
>America<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [IRCA] DX ALERT! Thousands left homeless after transmitter 
>explodes.
>Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:39:23 -0500
>
>UPI 2/25/07:
>
>A Greenville (NC) man is being held by Abbeville Police in the explosion
>of a Abbeville (SC) radio station.  Mr. Charles A Taylor, 60 years old, was
>found hiding nearby in a ravine after the transmitter of Radio WABV,
>Abbeville, South Carolina, exploded in a tremendous flash that levelled
>homes within a radius of five miles of the station. The explosion occurred 
>in
>the early morning of February 24, at about 3 a.m.
>
>Mr. Taylor confessed to causing the explosion. When interviewed by a
>reporter for the Abbeville Fishwrapper, Mr. Taylor reported said: "This was
>first DX test by a radio station that I stayed up for in twenty years, and 
>when
>I found out it had occurred the night before.....something snapped in my
>head!"
>
>Mr. Taylor is being held on $500,000 bond.
>
>
>
>         -----
>Charles A Taylor, WD4INP
>Greenville, North Carolina

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