ID3 vTCON Blues TIT2 + It's Who You Know www.therainreport.com TPE1 2 Dmitri Zhikharev, RA9USU www.therainreport.com TXXX 5 Engineer Hap Holly, KC9RP www.therainreport.com TCOP . (c) 1990-2014 R.A.I.N. All rights reserved. COMM The RAIN Report for June 27, 2014 includes: Its Who You Know Its Who You Know That Counts. Negotiating for and navigating the setting up a demo Amateur Radio station in a shopping mall, retired U.S. battleship, museum or any other public place is often fraught with politics, and that can apply to Field Day too. But none of these compare to the red tape David Collingham, K3LP encountered organizing a 14-day dxpedition to the island of Socotraliterally overnight! It was April, 2012; the place was Socotra Island (IOTA AF-028; CQ Zone 37), in the republic of Yemen. The team leader of this 7O6T dxpedition was Russian communications expert and inveterate dxpeditioner and Russian ham, Dmitri Zhikharev, RA9USU. The following is an excerpt from a 2013 Dayton Hamvention forum talk by Dmitri. He was introduced by inveterate DXpeditioner David Collingham, K3LP. (2013 Hamvention 20 mins) GEOB SfMarkers d B J ? BT440xCLQaÇ(+ t"CL8pWfvfrL8p
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