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Hello friends, As
you probably already know, Miguel (Mike) EA5IK will be working from Guinea
Bissau for 15 days, starting the
13th of september. He will travel with his ICOM IC706MKIIG with a tuner and a
switching power supply. He
will take with him some wires to make some antennas for all the bands from 6 to
80 meters. All this will be carried in a computer transport bag.
He
will not have any extra expenses to do this, apart from the materials themselves
because the main reason for Miguel
to travel to Bissau is to start a Practical School of Carpentry sponsored by the ONG ANAWIN
and the TownHall of the city where we live, Elche, the place where Miguel works.
Miguel will not request economical help for this mission
but he wants you to know that all the remaining money after asking the QSL
direct way by anyone, will be directly transfered to his project. The Lynx DX
Group has sponsored license's fee. SHORT
MEMORY Some
high-ranking officials from the Town Hall of Elche were asking Miguel about the
possibility of developing a
Practical School of Carpentry in the north of Bissau, and information about the personnal and machinery required to
do this project. A
group of five ophthalmologists will be traveling with Miguel with a complete set
of surgery needed to help the people of the
area. As
far as I know him, I can say Miguel
is an unsurpassable person doing his job, as well as a great operator in his
spare time. For all this I am sure
he will get the personal satisfaction he is looking for, he will give a great help to the people of Bissau and also he will bring for sure some
�new one� to all of us who are taking care of his activity on
HF. Thirteen vaccines are needed to enter the country, to
avoid contagious diseases and also a visa of 30 days (for a cost of �only� 60
euros). As
soon as he arrives in Bissau, Miguel will pick up his callsign from PTT. After
that will travel by bus to the North of the country, crossing a huge river using
(still) a pulley barge. His
QTH will be a few kilometers from the Senegal border.
There
is no any other way of communication in the place, apart from his small Icom and
the electricity power will be produced with a
generator. WHY?
You
have to know Miguel to understand
why. He will give every thing for nothing. That�s his Bible. He told me
that he will earn the same money staying here than going there, he will not get
an extra salary for this, but only a few people can get the satisfaction he will
gain in this trip. When
you exchange the 59, Miguel will have already helped a lot of people to improve
their lives, a lot of people like ourselves, who have to live and work depending
of their own resources, and over there in Bissau that is not that easy.
BON
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