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2013-07-30 Thread la...@otterstad.dk
Hello Frank, You have every reason in the world to wonder ! HII just read the article and too many details dont make sense. Just frozen ground. This was supposed to be at sea level where the ground never freezes. Going ashore in a lifeboat - just cannot be done. BUT , at the time the

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2013-07-29 Thread la...@otterstad.dk
Just too bad that Gus cheated on Bouvet LH4C. I felt it particulary sad as I arranged his licence and picked the callsign. 73 Rag LA5HE And here's another Gus Browning tribute page: http://www.oocities.org/capecanaveral/1641/gusbrowning.html 73, Dave K8MN On 7/28/2013 23 08,

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2013-07-29 Thread donovanf
Hello Rag, I always wondered about Gus Browning's LH4C DXpedition, and the accuracy of this article, given the extreme difficulty of landing on Bouvet. http://archive.org/stream/73-magazine-1967-10/10_October_1967#page/n86/mode/1up I first started DXing in 1960 as K1LPL

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2013-07-29 Thread donovanf
...@hamgallery.com, k...@frontiernet.net Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 6:45:43 PM Subject: Re: Topband: : W4BPD Archive Shades of Don Miller and Herbie Klein And then Romeo at N. Korea, he and his wife were our guests for a week.. In 60-63 I was still playing sailor and didnt get a station up

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2013-07-29 Thread HAROLD SMITH JR
...@starpower.net, topband@contesting.com Cc: la...@yahoo.no, Thomas Roscoe k...@hamgallery.com, k...@frontiernet.net Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 6:45:43 PM Subject: Re: Topband: : W4BPD Archive Shades of Don Miller and Herbie Klein And then Romeo at N. Korea, he and his wife were our guests

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2013-07-28 Thread donovanf
An archive of W4BPD's writings about his early life and Dxpeditions is on this page: http://springfieldsc.us/W4BPD.htm The detailed index and reprinted articles are here: http://springfieldsc.us/Archive%20page.htm#Post%20index 73 Frank W3LPL _ Topband Reflector

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2013-07-28 Thread Dave Heil
And here's another Gus Browning tribute page: http://www.oocities.org/capecanaveral/1641/gusbrowning.html 73, Dave K8MN On 7/28/2013 23 08, donov...@starpower.net wrote: An archive of W4BPD's writings about his early life and Dxpeditions is on this page: http://springfieldsc.us/W4BPD.htm