K7QQ responded to K0HB's suggestion that /MM nets started out as
way to provide phone patches to US military personal outside USA:
>The time as an amateur shud have been 40 Plus and Extra since 1970, Gosh
>I thought that the Navy had a MARS operation that could handle that kind of
>Phone Patch activity. I know that the Army and AF did. and AFA7UGA /
>K7UGA from Phoenix area handeled thousands of them during Vietnam action,
>I also handeled a few from Japan to the Big P.X. during that time frame.
I was thinking of the same thing...
Also something about 3rd party agreements - plus unless you have
declared war or are in international waters there is also a small matter
of being in someone else's jurisdiction.
73, VR2BrettGraham
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