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Professional HF Work?
"BNB Sound" wrote in message oups.com... I've been an amateur operator for a little over a year now and one of my favorite parts of the hobby is soaking up stories from previous decades. One of the things I'm curious about is professional HF work. I've heard it mentioned in passing that when the early trans-Atlantic cables went down they would shift to HF circuits as available to try and pick up the slack. So, what else is out there. I know the military has always been heavily invested in radio gear, but what else was (and is?) there? I'd love to hear from anyone who ever brought home a paycheck for working the airwaves. I used to run a company in Tanzania that supplied HF radio kit to NGO's Mines, Aid agencies, Safari companies,Farms, Shipping and transportation companies. Not much of a mobile phone network away from the cities. Also we provided a HF email service called Bushmail, similar to Sailmail using Pactor 3 SCS modems for HF email. HF kit that we supplied Kenwood TRC 80/TK88, Icom IC-78/IC-718, also some kit from Codan and Motorola So, yes there is a business market for HF comms kit in Africa. Robin |
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