[NCDXA] Historic Log Page

[Alfred Laun]

Gentlemen:

A seminal event in NCDXA history is now illustrated on-line with the scan
of the first page of the XV5AC log book on the day that we opened up legal
ham radio in Viet Nam.  NCDXA member Ray Spence, W4QAW was Chief Engineer
of the FCC at the time.  Chester Lunsford, W4EVG (XV5AC) brought the
paperwork from Saigon and hand-delivered it to Ray.  Viet Nam had been on
the ITU "banned list" at the time and that meant that U.S. hams were not
allowed to work stations in Viet Nam.  Once Ray had a chance to look at the
documents he ordered Viet Nam to be removed from the FCC version of the
banned list.   But in doing so he decreed that XV5AC had to work about ten
NCDXA members before the station could work anybody else.

Chester relayed the news back to us in Saigon where Don Riebhoff, K7CBZ and
myself were awaiting the orders from Chester to fire up the XV5AC station.
At the appointed hour Don and I were in the XV5AC shack and fired up the
Collins S-Line and Henry 4K amplifier, feeding a TH6DXX on the roof of an
8-story American Embassy apartment building, beaming the grey line path to
the East Coast, and we were in business.

Thanks to KX4R and K8CX, this log page has been retrieved from the dustbin
of history and is now available for viewing at
http://hamgallery.com/gallery/S/xv5ac_logs.htm

You will note some prominent current and former NCDXA members there in the
log.

73, Fred, K3ZO
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