CQ Amateur Radio

Putting VU4 On the Air: The Story Behind the Story

“I’ve waited 57 years for VU4,” a ham declared in his letter to me, which included a nice donation to the DXpedition. Others exclaimed, “This is my last one for working ‘em all." “My grandson asks me on every visit, ‘Did you get your DX stuff, Grandpa?' and now maybe I can tell him, ‘yes!'"

Scores of letters from all over the globe came to me with these kinds of stories, all

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