[CCF] Dave Heil pulls the plug

[Klimoff Timo]

5H3US, NEWS RELEASE
Dave Heil, K8MN, active for the past two years as 5H3US in Dar es Salaam, 
Tanzania, is pulling the plug on a decade-and-a-half of DXing and contesting 
which resulted in over 230,000 QSOs from various spots. Dave and his Finnish XYL 
Leila leave for the U.S. on June 16th on a permanent basis and will spend the 
next month relaxing at their rural West Virginia home. Dave promises that a book 
on his travels is in the works.

The Heils met in 1986 during Dave's first assignment to Helsinki. They married 
in Guinea-Bissau in early 1989. Dave's subsequent Foreign Service assignments 
took them to Sierra Leone and Botswana. The couple took a needed break from 
Africa from mid-1995 through mid-1998 to return to Finland over the solar 
minimum. 

Dave's ex-calls include OH2 and OH0/K8MN, J52US, 9L1US, A22MN. He was also a 
member of the 1986 OH0MD/OJ0 team which featured OH2BH, OH2BAZ, OH0MA, OH0RJ, 
W6EUF and K8MFO. QSL manager WA8JOC still holds logs for all of Dave's 
operations.

(OPDX Bulletin)

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