[SADXA] VU4 History

[Richard Solomon]

Google Romeo Stepanenko, 3W3RR and you will get more info than you ever wanted.

He was a legend in the DX Community and got permission to operate in
countries that
put you up against the wall if you had a radio. His last "expedition",
was supposedly to North
Korea. Rumors I heard was that he was located (via radio
triangulation, at considerable
expense of Government assets) to just outside the North Korea border.
For this he was
chucked out of the DXCC program. There are some Zealots who want all
his operations
disqualified (most of these guys have the countries confirmed by other
Q's). But, given the
hand written DXCC files of old, that is impossible.

I met him at our DX Club meeting and got my card for YA0RR CW Q. That
put me on the
CW Honor Roll (I have since made numerous other YA CW Q's). He was a personable
chap and readily admitted that he got his licenses, from the
legitimate government (at the
time) and considerable sums had changed hands at the time.

Another milestone in DXCC History. Now, anyone remember Don Miller ??
And to give equal
time to the other side of the ledger, Gus Browning.

73, Dick, W1KSZ

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:20 AM, k7bhm <k7bhm at cox.net> wrote:
>        Dick...........Good luck in trying to explaine "ROMEO" to
>        the relatively newbees  There has to be a book!!!!
>
>        ..................Bob - K7BHM
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Douglas Todd" <toddd1 at cox.net>
> To: "Southern AZ DX Association E-Mail Reflector" <sadxa at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 8:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [SADXA] VU4 History
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>
>> Dick, Who is Romeo? There must be a story here...
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Richard Solomon" <dickw1ksz at gmail.com>
>> To: <sadxa at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 4:09 PM
>> Subject: [SADXA] VU4 History
>>
>>
>>>I am reminded of my first SSB Q with VU4 back in 1987. If you think
>>> todays operation
>>> is fun, it's mild compared to the shenanigans back then. The QRM'ers
>>> were out in force.
>>> There was one operator, an XYL, Barati (sp?), every time she called
>>> for NA only the EU's
>>> would stomp on the frequency, for a while she forgot there was a SA,
>>> so they were on the
>>> freq constantly.
>>> She would announce they were turning the beam stateside and the signal
>>> promptly went
>>> from S7-S9 to S1 !! They were turning it the wrong direction. Finally
>>> one of the "big guns"
>>> got them and gave them the right beam headings.
>>>
>>> Ah, the "good" old days ... Where is Romeo when you need him ?? Oh,
>>> yes, he's still in
>>> jail !!
>>>
>>> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
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