[SFDXA] Baghdad Ham Club (not a joke...)

[Mark Cobbeldick]

This info was publised in the April edition of the
Yellowstone (MT) ARC Newsletter.

73,
Mark C.
KB4CVN / C6AMC


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YELLOWSTONE RADIO CLUB 
Newsletter Billings, Montana 
April 2003 


<Page 7> 

Baghdad Ham Club Is Stored And Probably Won�t Be
Available To Handle Much Emergency Traffic For A
While! 

Baghdad ham club station dismantled prior to bombing:
The Daily DX relays Information from Diya Sayah,
YI1DZ--one of the primary operators at the Baghdad
Radio Club YI1BGD station in Baghdad. 

Sayah reported just prior to the outbreak of
hostilities in Iraq that he had dismantled the YI1BGD
station equipment and stored it in a safe place--if
there can be such a location in the besieged capital
city at this point. The Daily DX Editor Bernie
McClenny, W3UR, says he doubts there will be any
activity in the near future from YI1BGD "much less any
other YI stations." 

The YI1BGD club station went on the air in the 1970s.
The Iraqi Association for Radio Amateurs (IARA)
remains an International Amateur Radio Union (IARU)
member-society. Its president is Adnan M. Aswad,
YI1DX.



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