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Welcome to my website!
These pages will describe some of my experiences in what I believe is one of the most diverse and fun hobbies in today's world. This is NOT my life story, and I am not going to talk about my parents, my education, my wonderful wife of 40 years, my 33 year working career in the Securities business, my two great kids or my terrific three grandchildren. This website is about my hobby and my adventures in traveling the world, visiting places that virtually no one ever sees. The catalyst for these adventures is Amateur Radio (called "Ham Radio" by nearly everyone). For a brief tutorial on what ham radio is all about, click HERE.
There are presently 337 places on the globe that have "country" status so far as ham radio is concerned. Maybe 100 of them wouldn't sound like countries to non-hams but do qualify as countries to the hundreds of thousands of ham radio operators around the world.
A big part of the ham radio hobby is trying to establish contact with all 337 of them. That's the good news.
The bad news is that no one lives in some of those "countries". No one. Even when the country is inhabited, there may be no one with a ham license living there. On top of that, many of these countries are isolated and difficult to get to, or the current government doesn't allow its citizens to have a Ham radio.
Since many dedicated hams worldwide (called Dxers) want to accumulate contacts with as many countries as possible, it's necessary that a few hardy souls journey to these places, laden down with ham gear, tents, food and so forth in order to (briefly) put these countries "on the air" so other hams can get credit for contacting them.
I'm one of those "hardy souls" and these are my adventures.
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