[OKDXA] VU4 Dxpedition !!!

[Bill Clark]

Folks, I would suggest we participate in this to
whatever we can afford.

VU4, ANDAMAN ISLANDS. Charles Harpole, K4VUD and
VU3CHE, sent out a
"Please Help VU4 DXpedition" press release this past
weekend. 
Basically,
the release states that Bharathi Prasad, VU2RBI, is
now within days of
receiving official permission to do a legal DXpedition
on the Andaman
Island (VU4). She has plans to arrive in the capital,
Port Blair, on or
about December 1st. Charles states, "This is very
short notice to 
obtain
funding help from the ham community. I am now urgently
seeking 
donations
of any amount to fund the basic costs of this
DXpedition. In the 
unlikely
event that the trip does not happen in a timely
manner, ALL donations
will be fully refunded to the donors. Full keeping of
donor records and
addresses and amounts will be carried out. NCDX
Foundation request has
also been made but time is very short. Please feel
free to relay this
urgent message to all hams world-wide by any means."
Donations in U.S.
Dollar amounts via personal check or international
postal money order
or equivalent should be made out to and mailed to:
Charles Harpole,
3100 N. Hwy. 426, Geneva, FL  32732-9761 USA. Charles,
K4VUD, E-mail
address is:                  k4vud at hotmail.com
Charles sent out a second press release that states:
"Bharathi has
appealed to VU2SON for help in getting permission to
do a legal 
operation
on VU4. She has asked for a month-long operating
permission this 
December.
Only native citizens of India are allowed to operate.
Bharathi and her
family are of modest means. She does not have any
money of her own to
invest in this DXpedition. India culture indicates a
proper married 
woman
only travel with her husband, VU2DBP. She led the 1978
DXpedition to 
VU4.
This from the latest OPDX Bulletin.
73  BILL-W5VW