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Surfin’: A Town Without Pitney

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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
ARRL*Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ scours the Internet for yet another musical ham.*

Two weeks running, I have written here about hams I know who sing or sang for a living. In response, Paul Walcott, WD8H, e-mailed me that the late rock crooner Gene Pitney was a ham, too.

That was news to me! Gene Pitney was a Connecticut native, lived 30 miles up I-84 from me, att...





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