[TVARC] NEXT WEEKEND - - HF QSO's in Honor of the 82nd Airborne Divisions conquest in 1944-1945.

[William De Miranda]

Thanks, Larry, for that info. I was there as a 10 year old kid when Eindhoven was liberated on September 18, 1944, as part of Operation Market Garden  (A Bridge Too Far). 
Pim Miranda, K4PIM

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> On May 3, 2019, at 11:30 PM, Larry Peterson <lpeterso at stny.rr.com> wrote:
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> All:
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> You may be interested in the following HF operations to commemorate the 75 Anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands, following the 82nd Airborne from their British base in 1944, Utah Beach on June 1944 into the Netherlands in May of 1945. They are going to be trying to reach across the Atlantic and into the USA.  May the propagation be with you!
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> Larry  N2AMW
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> The Dutch Kingdom Amateur Radio Society DKARS Magazine #48, January 2019.
> Pages 13 & 14. 
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> During the General Members Meeting (GMM) in 2018, the question came up what kind of events we could do in the future. And a great plan came to life.
> Apart from the Jota, we are also active at events that we organize ourselves. This great idea that emerged from the GMM was to organize an event around the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands. The liberation of, among others, the Netherlands started on June 6, 1944 in Normandy. The idea was to follow a unit along the liberation route from Normandy to finally the liberation of The Nether-lands on 5 May 1945 in Wageningen. 
> After some study the idea came to follow the route of the American 82nd Airborne Division. This Division was dropped on June 6 in St. Mere Eglise during the execution of Operation Overlord (Operation Detroit). They have also been deployed in Bastogne and Grave. We will follow the route from the planning phase in the Dover Castle, through to the landings in St. Mere Eglise (Utah Beach), and via the battles around Bastogne and Grave. Eventually we end our trip in Wageningen where the liberation was established and where we will celebrate the 75th anniversary of liberation on 5 May 2020.
> Our idea is to be operational under the call PA82AD from the locations that the 82ND Airborn Division have visited. We will be on the air as close as possible to the date of the operationas 75 years before. The objective is to make QSO's mainly on HF. We will certainly try to reach the USA in order to honor the American 82ND Airborne Division.
> Our tour will look like this:
> (GB) Dover Castle 10 May 2019 - 12 May 2019
> (F) St Mere Eglise (Utah Beach) June 5, 2019 - June 9, 2019
> (ON) Bastogne 30-11 / 01-12 or 7-12 / 8-12 2019
> (PA) Grave (also GMM) 21 Mar 2020 - 22 Mar 2020
> (PA) Wageningen 04 May 2020 - 05 May 2020
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> Link  =  (Right click and open hyperlink)
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