[OKDXA] N5PO

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As you know, Lee, N5PO, was to operate from Vietnam during the CQWW CW
Contest.  I received the following note from him regarding the trip

Hi Jim,

I got home on December 4th.  I am just now beginning to recover.  It does
not bother me going to Asia, but really gets to me when I come home.  I
am tired all day and cannot sleep at night. HI

Well the trip, as far as Ham radio was concerned, was a complete washout.
First My laptop went out the day I got there, then the radio , A FT900,
that I was going to operate in the Hotel was broken. It would not key with
the internal keyer or an external key.  So I went over to Bac AI's (XV2A)
place and tryed to operate from there.  He has a nice and clean shack,
but his equipment is old.  A old FT757 with no cw filter and a FL2100 AMP.
He does have a good antenna system, a 4 ele tri-bander and wires for
other bands.  But his radio is NG so I only made a few contacts and give
up on it.  Eddy, XV9DT, called me from Hanoi and said I could come up
and operate from his place, but that was about a 1,000 mile trip and
400 more bucks.  So I just relaxed, did some sight seeing and took it
easy.