No HF, even as backup? Ancient history now, but I was in Tel Aviv on
business in 1993 and all the embassies I saw had HF antennas on the
rooftops. Interestingly, most were dipoles fed with 600 ohm open wire
line. One embassy had an HF log periodic.
Wasn't the Ten Tec Paragon sold under GSA contract to government
agencies? I wonder if any are tucked away in a corner of an embassy comm
room somewhere... Just in case.
73,
Bob WB2VUF
Dave Heil wrote:
VE1BN wrote:
Dave -
Many years have passed since I heard ZBM-2 sent to another op. I was a CW
operator in Resolute Bay.. Think anyone deserves it these days? (Hi)
I hung it up professionally in 2000. By that time, no one in the
Department of State was using either CW or HF RTTY. Everything is by
sat or leased line digital and nearly everything is automated.
Everything is fine until something goes wrong goes wrong goes wrong.
Dave K8MN
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