[Dx-qsl] Fw: P5/4L4FN QRT effective 2002 November 22

Sun Nov 24 11:44:01 2002

Really bad news.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bernie McClenny" <[email protected]>
To: "Weekly DX" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 6:07 AM
Subject: P5/4L4FN QRT effective 2002 November 22

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> Press Release for Immediate Distribution
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> P5/4L4FN QRT effective 2002 November 22
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> I just received word from Ed, P5/4L4FN that the unfortunate and worst
> possible thing has just happened.
> 
> Friday evening, 2002 November 22, Ed was called into a meeting with the
> "Radio Regulation Board" without any explanation, he was politely asked
> to quit all transmissions and pack all his radio equipment. Saturday, he
> spent all day on the roof disassembling his antennas and packing boxes.
> At 2:30pm on of the government officials came by, sealed all the boxes
> and when he leaves on December 10 for his two weeks R&R he is to take
> everything with him out of the country.  
> 
> This really hits the ham community hard. I for one was looking forward
> to a satellite contact on AO-40. I know that many of you were still
> awaiting your first QSO.  
> 
> Ed will keep all the equipment for his next duty station which will be
> another really good spot. Any money received from now on will be donated
> to help ZL1AMO's emergency air ambulance trip from Fiji back home.  
> 
> The logs should be 100% complete online by Monday. I will do up some
> stats of the DXpedition as time permits in the next week.
> 
> 73...Bruce
> 
> Bruce Paige, KK5DO       
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> Bernie McClenny, W3UR
> Editor or The Daily DX, The Weekly DX and How's DX.
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> http://www.dailydx.com 
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