[CQ-Contest] Help out fellow contesters?

[Ramirez, Kenneth EXCH]

                I hope Trey doesn't mind this plea for help on the 
contest reflector. I have been in communication with KH2D on Guam 
island. I'm sure most of you have worked Jim in many a contest. Jim 
has set up a Dxcluster(tm) on the island with telnet access to a W5 
Dxcluster(tm). The Marianas islands have always had a problem with 
communications links in that most of the equipment 
(computers,TNCs,repeaters,etc) always QSY back to the states or 
elsewhere whenever the owner gets transferred. Jim has formed the 
Marianas Islands DX Association in an effort to establish PERMANENT 
communications via a packet link between Guam, Saipan, Rota, and 
Tinian. (KH2 and KH0)
                The necessary equipment is hard to come by out there 
and is usually cost prohibitive for many of the poorer ham residents 
of the islands.. They want to use the link during contests but most 
especially for use during the numerous typhoons they experience, one 
of which is cutting across the middle of Guam as we speak. All 
communication with KH2D has been cut off presently due to the typhoon 
they are getting now. I am collecting donations of excess computer 
parts. ( old motherboards, TNCs ,cases, video cards ,hard drives,small 
2m yagis, etc., etc.) to ship to Jim so he can get an Island wide 
network set up. WH0AAV will be the first KH0 on the new network as 
soon as we can get him a computer and a TNC.(we're also working on 
Jun's 75m signal by tring to locate an HF2V antenna to replace the low 
dipole he now uses on that band) Many of you have also worked Jun 
plenty of times in the contests. If any of you have any excess 
outdated computer stuff that you have been thinking of throwing away 
please let me know via E-mail. It can be put to GOOD use over in the 
far Pacific!!!   73 Ken N4UK
221 Beaverdam Creek Rd., Gray Court, SC 29645


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