Topband: ham radio- NOT

[Herbert Schoenbohm]

The last trip from Navassa in 1969 from the rope ladder to the supply 
boat via a small wooden dingy, the dinghy broke apart and sank.  The 
trips from Jamaica to and from were horrific with the high seas and the 
nauseating and constant smell of diesel fuel from the exhaust. Prior to 
this there were some DX-peditions to very rare rock entities from a 
hotel room in a nearby country, from British Columbia so the path 
appeared to be from China, and from the comfort of a sailboat tied up to 
the pier in various Caribbean Islands.  The stories of these exploits 
still circulate around at Visalia and Dayton.


Herb, KV4FZ

On 2/26/2015 7:24 PM, Dave Blaschke, w5un wrote:
> Larry, I remember it well, and worked you guys there. Those were the 
> glory days.
>
> Dave, W5UN
>
> remember Gus Browning? he was the guy who risked his life to take his 
> suitcase radio to remote places in the world just so the "chosen few" 
> could have a new country. remember the first expedition to Mellish 
> Reef? the guys almost lost their lives in a broken down boat to give 
> the masses a new one. i was there! no ice breakers and helicopters for 
> us.
>
> 73,
> Larry n7dd/60 (60 wonderful years of "ham radio")
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