N0MU, JA, Joe Allen worked at KFS in Half Moon Bay, then went out to sea on one of the Santa cargo/passenger ships which went around South America for an approximately 2 month round trip, finally ending up as CRO on SS MARIANA/WSNA - where I had the pleasure of working him many times from sea. It seems that one of the Santa ships was always going through the Magellan Strait across Tierra de Fuego, Chile, they were required to send a safety message when they were passing some of the narrow points, and you'd hear the ships on 500 with their "TTT TTT TTT CQ CQ CQ" broadcasts on 500 kHz. That's beautiful country, perhaps my favorite place in the world. Joe Allen, N0MU, JA, is an excellent operator.
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