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An Update on the Club Station at the Addis Ababa Institute of Technology

This month, I am turning over the keyboard to Ken Claerbout, K4ZW, to give us an update on the ET3AA station in Ethiopia, about which I last wrote about in December 2015. Ken, who is vice president of the Yasme Foundation, has been a mentor for the students at the station for quite some time. He visits them whenever he is in the area while traveling for work. He and Bob Johnson, W9XY, recently operated from the station and helped make some repairs and upgrades. I became the QSL Manager for ET3AA when a team led by The Intrepid DX Group (K3LP (SK), N6PSE, and others) went to the station at the invitation of then club mentor Sid, ET3SID, in 2011. I handled QSLing for their visit. After ET3SID became a Silent Key a couple of years later, I was asked to take over all QSLing for the station. Although many older paper logs were lost, I was able to secure an assortment of logs going back to 1998. The current log on hand has some 111,000 QSOs. I also handle the QSLing for the ET3YOTA callsign that the students have used a few times. That log contains some 5,500 more QSOs. These logs are on Club Log for anyone looking for QSL cards. I hope you enjoy Ken’s review of his latest visit with the students at ET3AA. – De N2OO

ET3AA Update

BY KEN CLAERBOUT, K4ZW

In December 2018, Bob Johnson, W9XY, and I traveled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to join the