From: Greg Hayden
Newsgroups: alt.great-lakes
Subject: Duluth Foghorn
Date: 31 May 1996 23:02:01 -0700
According to my retired Great Lakes sailor dad, the high pitched
electronic fog horn could not be heard by everyone. OTOH, these days
with radar and GPS I wonder how necessary it is to have any fog horn. At
least for commercial shipping.
Greg Hayden
Another Merchant Marine Page
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/1965/
From: alliance@mr.net (JA)
Newsgroups: alt.great-lakes
Subject: Re: Duluth Foghorn
Date: 1 Jun 1996 19:30:50 GMT
Being a landlubber I've not heard of a high pitched fog-horn. I think the
Duluth controversy is over Lil Toot---a low--very low-- pitched fog horn.
This seems to be a tourist item and I can see why the locals are
tooting...although it is a rather unique sound
From: Greg Hayden
Newsgroups: alt.great-lakes
Subject: Re: Duluth Foghorn
Date: 1 Jun 1996 14:28:00 -0700
My dad tells me The Corp of Engineers replaced the Duluth Entry's
traditional steam typhoon a few years ago with a high - at least higher
pitched, electronic fog horn; but went back to the old one after a few
years since some of the commercial vessels complained of not hearing the
new one.
Greg Hayden
Another Merchant Marine Page
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/1965/
From: mcyst@vms.cis.pitt.edu
Newsgroups: alt.great-lakes
Subject: Re: Duluth Foghorn
Date: 2 Jun 96 19:56:13 EDT
When I sailed on the lakes I LOVED the sound of the Duluth foghorn.
I also was under the impression that one of my favorite rock albums has a bit
of bass guitar feedback that almost duplicates it: the bass feedback from Phil
Lesh at the beginning of "Saint Steven" on the Grateful Dead's Live/Dead album.
Anyone else know what I mean? ...Agree? ....Disagree?
(this probably will NOT affect the value as a tourist attraction...)
Mick Young
Pittsburgh, PA
From: tholecek@usa.pipeline.com(Tom Holecek)
Newsgroups: alt.great-lakes
Subject: Re: Duluth foghorn
Date: 29 Jul 1996 04:47:53 GMT
No, the damn thing still works. The only way to shut it off is with
dynamite!!!!
Seriously though, it should work whenever is foggy, as it has a fog
detection switch, but it is known to malfunction from time to time-- less
often than I would like as it seems to be aimed right at my house.
Subject: Re: Duluth Foghorn
From: demers@cray.com (Larry DeMers)
Date: 11 Jun 1996 17:30:33 GMT
Message-ID: <4pkafp$7ks@walter.cray.com>
I have sailed Western Superior for almost 20 years, and when the Duluth
Diaphone was decommissioned, it was replaced with a higher pitched, single
frequency horn that emitted a 110dB tone. The sound was ok until there was fog.
Then I found that it only carried a mile or so out on the lake, and was not
distinctive enough to give a good idea of it's direction. The people in Duluth
got together and formed a fund to restore the diaphone (Ol'Toot) and reinstall
it by popular demand. It remains installed and working, with it's wonderful
deep bass rumbling away. Incidently, there is a web site that has a .WAV
recording of Ol'Toot on line for your listening edification and enjoyment.
Contact me for the address (darn thing is at home now-rats).
Larry DeMers
S/V DeLaMer
Cape Dory 30 "Sailing the beautiful Apostle Islands of Lake Superior"
"It is dangerous to awaken a lion; The teeth of the tiger can prove fatal;
but the most fearsome of all is the human religious fanatic...
... J. von Schiller
From: rtotzke@omnifest.uwm.edu (Raphael L. Totzke)
Newsgroups: alt.great-lakes
Subject: Re: Duluth foghorn
Date: 29 Jul 1996 11:43:16 -0500
Let us hope that the foghorn is fully operational despite an
individual's annoyance. Sailors and Coasties of all commercial sizes and
the civilian users rely on those horns and lights. Even with the Coast
Guard's changing of the policies on manning lights and foghorns they still
provide a great service to those who sail the sweetwater seas for pleasure
or profit.
A USCG alumnus speaks!!!
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