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Talking to the world from a rooftop in Dhaka: The story of Bangladesh’s amateur radio community (Bangladesh)
Collinsville radio operator connected Vietnam War soldiers to families back home (Alabama)
Ham radio operators began hearing strange Persian numbers broadcast twice a day until they traced the signal to a U.S. base in Germany and realized it may be a coded wartime message
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Before cell phones and video calls, many soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War went without hearing a loved one’s voice from back home.
In Collinsville, one man found a way to change that.
Bill Dobbs, known by his radio call sign “WA4SNU”, spent decades building and operating his own amateur radio system. The system bridged thousands of miles between war zones and home.
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Talking to the world from a rooftop in Dhaka: The story of Bangladesh’s amateur radio community (Bangladesh)
Ham radio operators began hearing strange Persian numbers broadcast twice a day until they traced the signal to a U.S. base in Germany and realized it may be a coded wartime message
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