Great story! Thanks! On May 5, 2017 11:13 AM, "NIzar Mullani via BVARC" <[email protected]> wrote:
> As the day for Field Day approaches, I am reminded of one of my most > memorable FDs. I would like to share this memory with you. > > > > I had just arrived from Tanzania in 1963 as a student at Washington > University in Saint Louis, MO. I almost got my license as VQ3 before I came > except the 10 wpm code test was only given once a year and I could not get > it done before leaving for the states. So, no license. I had to wait until > I became a Citizen in 1975. > > > > In those days, foreigners were not allowed to get an amateur radio license > in the USA. So, I joined the university ARC and would go listen to one of > the operators work DX in between classes. One day, we heard a pile up > working 5H3JR from Tanzania. My friend turned on the amp and I called the > station in Swahili. Needless to say, he was totally shocked to hear Jambo > Bwanakuba being yelled at him in a pileup. He came right back to us and > asked who was speaking Swahili. We chatted for a while. He was a missionary > and used ham radio to communicate from remote areas of Tanzania. > > > > My ARC friends realized that I was hooked on ham radio and really wanted > to do more. So, they invited me to go on a Field Day with them to the > Ozarks. They rented a rustic cabin (low budget) in the hills of the Ozarks. > We packed up the car with the Drake TR4 and found a generator to take with > us. When we got there, we strung up some wire antennas in the tall trees > surrounding the cabin, set up the rig on a picnic table outside the cabin > and started operating FD. For those of you who were hams in those days, we > did not have computers and had to log by hand. I was the designated logger. > > > > I learnt a lot about Ham Radio that weekend in the Ozarks. I learnt that > no matter where you are from or race of color, Hams have no boundaries. We > are ALL Hams and we belong to the same group. I also learnt about how to > put up antennas, how to operate the rigs, operate the logger, how to share > rig time with others and most of all, how to work as a team. In short, I > learnt about how to set up my own radio when the time comes. > > > > It has been 52 years since that most memorable FD, but I still remember it > as if happened yesterday. That is one of the best things about Most > Memorable Memories. They don’t fade away, they just get better with time. > > > > So, share with us YOUR most memorable FD as we get ready for the next one. > > > > 73, Nizar K0NM > > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Message delivered to [email protected] > >
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