
While there he hooked up with Bob Furzer (9K2ZZ) in Kuwait City. Bob made arrangements with the Kuwaiti Amateur Radio Club for John to obtain a Kuwaiti Amateur Radio License (W4NU/9K2). W4NU operated on Sundays (his day off) from July to September of 2002 using 9K2ZZ's station. Contacts were made all over the world despite the huge European and Russian pile-ups!!!
Propagation was not the best to the US on 20 and 15, but quite a few US stations were in the log. Unfortunately very few SEDXC members were among them. The rig was a TS-930 driving an Ameritron linear to a TH-7 on a tower above 9K2ZZ's apartment building.