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| From 1968 through 1972 I lived and worked in Africa, for the Game Department,
in the Ministry of
Agriculture and Tourism, of Tanzania, East Africa. When I first arrived in Tanzania as a CUSO (Canadian University Service Overseas) volunteer I could not get a Tanzanian license as there was a jurisdiction problem between the Tanzanian Military Security, which said that anyone wishing to operate must obtain a military security clearance, and the East African Post and Telecommunications Ministry which had the task of issuing the license. They believed they had the exclusive right to control Amateur Radio and all other Postal, Radio, Telephone, Telegraph, and Overseas Satellite in the three East African Countries and so would not issue licenses in Tanzania in 1968. I applied for the military clearance at military headquarters in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania and received permission to operate with my Canadian callsign signing portable in Tanzania. So in September 1968 I came on the air as VE3EUP/5H3. In 1968 this was the callsign convention for portable operations. At the same time I forwarded all the documentation to EAPTT in Dar-es-Salaam and again was told they could not issue licenses and suggested I write to the director in Nairobi, Kenya, which I did. It was not until December of 1968 that they finally said to send my 60 schillings and they would grant me a license. So in January of 1969 5H3LV became my callsign. My first station was very modest one, operation CW only on 80 to 10meters using an Eico 720 crystal controlled transmitter and Trio 59RDG receiver. The antennas were a cubical quad at 20 feet and a multi-band vertical at 30 feet. |
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| As you can see very modest station with homebrew antennas. A two element triband quad made from local bamboo and angle iron. In late December with the news that I would get a license I built a 50ft mast for my quad and moved it to 50 ft. | |||
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In the summer of 1969 I returned to Canada for two weeks and during that time the Canadian DX association (Canad-x) assisted me in getting a HW 100 kit from Heathkit Canada, which I took back with me and had on the air in the fall of 1969 on SB and CW. Later that fall a Ham who wanted to visit from Hong Kong delivered an FL1000 amplifier and we were now really cooking. On the left is the station with the HW 100 barefoot and what it looked like in late 1972 before I returned to Canada. I now had a Drake 2c receiver, an HW101 with an external VFO built from remains of the HW100 that got dumped into the sea on our first trip to Zanzibar and lasted only a few months after our return due salt water corrosion which eat the chassis. The amplifier is behind my head. The wall map was courtesy of Air France in Dar-es-Salaam and friends in the French Embassy. The surround desk was made from plywood sheets salvaged from packing crates of several overseas nationals who arrived in Tanzania with large sea freight shipments of household furnishings. |
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| Two of my QSL cards, these cards were only issued from Dar-es-Salaam. Canad-x acted as my QSL manager, Ron Nickle, VE3SF was the actual member who did the work. I do not have a copy of any of the cards that Canad-x issued. | |||
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If you still need a QSL I still have all
the paper logs and I can still issue QSL Cards |
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