[CQ-Contest] Fw: Fw: WW SSB on my mind

VR2BrettGraham vr2bg at harts.org.hk
Fri Nov 4 20:34:23 EST 2005


K7QQ responded to K0HB's suggestion that /MM nets started out as
way to provide phone patches to US military personal outside USA:

>The time as an amateur shud have been 40 Plus and Extra since 1970,    Gosh
>I thought that the Navy had a MARS operation that could handle that kind of
>Phone Patch activity.   I know that the Army and AF did.    and    AFA7UGA /
>K7UGA  from Phoenix area handeled thousands of them during Vietnam action,
>I also handeled a few from Japan to the Big P.X.  during that time frame.

I was thinking of the same thing...

Also something about 3rd party agreements - plus unless you have
declared war or are in international waters there is also a small matter
of being in someone else's jurisdiction.

73, VR2BrettGraham



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