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Written by Muneem Rana   
Friday, 12 September 2008 12:47
IKE view from ISS
 
 I hope u r watching the Ike path.

Its hit point is Galveston near Huston, I'm located about 150 mile north from Galveston.We are expecting about 60/70 mile wind at Saturday late night at my QTH.S21B ' harmonic Farhad ( S21G ) just bought a house last month in Huston about  25/30  mile north-west  from Galveston. Farhad is now at London for an official tour and his flight schedule tomorrow, don't think his flight will come at this weather, so he seems stuck. And nobody can watch his home.
 
I'm remembering old days of our activity in Bangladesh during cyclones, and getting nostalgic today.
One hour ago for the first time after 10 year,  I opend the Alinco DR-599 T/E, and amazingly its working nice. Now in listening mode of local Ham club repeater. I bought it from Singapore in 1997 /1998, and we tried hard to set it for Dhaka amateur VHF repeater.
I connected it to my good old UHF/VHF mobile Cushcraft antenna with Dimond MX-72 duplexer.  This cushcraft was always on top of my red car (so many experiment and memories with it) . I just touched the old Dhaka dust which came with it from my old car roof.
So many memory-pop-ups coming  .... feeling lonely and missing the old colorful active Ham days........and cyclones !!!!.
Source: S21R Rana's e-mail from US
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The red car
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Fazlay Rabby (User loged in from:202.74.244.xxx) 2009-02-02 18:38:52
I remember S21R has a red car with HF/VHF antenna and a red flasher. There was a
multiband radio inside with remote head, can't remember the model (a IC-706
maybe). Once during a JOTA Rana bhai had a QSO from the car to a US station, we
use to sit in his office near Mohammadpur postoffice for meeting, still remember
those nice days.
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