[bigbob]

Here's a picture of AFA7UGA, a MARS station owned by Senator Barry Goldwater at his home in Arizona, which was used to conduct thousands of phone patches to loved ones back home from US service personnel deployed in VietNam.

[MarchonDC09122009]

Thanks for posting this related picture - it puts a face to the huge effort of HAM operator patch communication .

RE: “Here’s a picture of AFA7UGA, a MARS station owned by Senator Barry Goldwater at his home in Arizona, which was used to conduct thousands of phone patches to loved ones back home from US service personnel deployed in VietNam.”