But if
you're an Amateur Radio operator (and I know we have a few on this list), you
will have another reason to visit towards the end of the year. The museum is
preparing an exhibit they are titling Bash Hal Ne Ae ("Music from
Iron"), in which they will be recreating Amateur Radio station K7UGA, which
was licensed to the late Senator Barry Goldwater.
During the
Vietnam War, K7UGA operated virtually 24/7 from Goldwater's home on a hill in
Paradise Valley, with volunteers running hundreds of thousands of radio phone
patches between our armed forces and their loved ones back in the US. This
should be quite an exhibit if you're a ham or if you're just interested in
radios. After all, that's what your GPSr is: a radio.
The museum
representative I spoke to told me they were shooting for a November opening of
the exhibit but they weren't certain they would make it on time. As they used to
say on the radio, stay tuned.
Steve
Team Tierra
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