On Thursday, October 8, 2020 at 8:42:50 PM UTC-4, Dan Fitzgerald wrote:

😳JJ
A day with heavy radio chatter prompted a remark from a pilot at a neighboring club: "It sounds like the Elsinore crew is going up at 500 words per minute!".


Back in the day, the operation at Wurtsboro was famous for a couple of guys with German accents who relentlessly provided position reports (note: no point is more than 10 miles from the local airport).

- Ver are u Hans?
- I am at ze Neville. Ver are u Franz?
- I am at ze zand pit.
- (10 minutes later) Ver ar u now Hans?
- I am at ze gravel pit. Ver are u Franz?
- I am at ze hang glider launch.

After about 3 hours of this the second (last ) guy announces entering ze pattern at Wurtsboro.

Tony Benson comes on the radio, hums a few bars of the Star Spangled Banner, and announces in a heavy German accent "Zis concludes our daily broadcast from Radio Free Wurtsboro. Join us again tomorrow, zame time, zame frequency". Radios up and down the east coast erupted with atta=boys and laughter.