[SFDXA] DX Alert - Naturist Amateur Radio Club

[Mickey Baker]

The activity of operating with a group of other amateurs nude has never
occured to me, probably because of ratio of men to women in amateur radio.
(Not that there's anything wrong with that, if it's your preference.)

73,

Mickey N4MB

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Bill <bmarx at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> The interest in Ham Radio and Naturists/Nudists seemed to start in the
> early 90's (maybe even earlier?). Ham Radio operations during Nude
> Recreation Weekend started in the early 90's as well. One of the first
> efforts happened from Hippie Hollow <http://www.nu5de.org/steve-HH.jpg>,
> a clothing optional county run park in Austin, TX. A long wire was run
> along the cliffs, just a short distance from the shoreline. The rig was run
> using a couple of heavy duty batteries, but contacts were few and far
> between, mainly due to the poor location. A vertical was also use at one
> point, but still limited contacts. The call sign used belonged to Bob,
> KF5KF (at the time). After little luck from Hippie Hollow, the decision was
> made to operate from Star Ranch Nudist Resort <http://www.starranch.net>,
> about 40 miles from Austin in a little town called McDade, in Central
> Texas. Bob operated from his house during the week and on the weekend he
> moved his equipment from home to Star Ranch. This caused a dramatic
> increase in the number of contacts. Bob changed his call sign to N5KF in
> the fall of 1996. This call was used in July, 1997 from Star Ranch.
>
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