SEDXC - SouthEastern DX Club

W4NU/9K2

Kuwait

John Harden W4NU, was called to active duty with the United States Army in March 2002. He reported to Ft. Stewart, GA within a few days at his permanent rank of Colonel, Dental Corps, USAR. In July he deployed to Camp Doha, Kuwait and served as the Theater Dental Surgeon for SW Asia.
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.

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