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Sunday, July 13, 2008

The TRCALLBOOK!

While doing a Google Search on a fellow ham by name of Ilhan Arikan TA5A, I came across this interesting online amateur radio callbook: http://trcallbook.org/

The website appears to require registration to make use of the database but this can be bypassed if one clicks on http://trcallbook.org/callsign/anycallsign. Anycallsign is defined as any stardard amateur radio callsign.

Here is the web site's mission statement:

This web site is dedicated to radio amateur all over the world with no intention of commercial proposes. The website has been developed and designed in order to provide simple, fast and secure services to our visitors. We intend to help people to reach the information about all the radio amateurs in the world easily from secure and reliable website. Also, all radio amateurs in the world, who have a valid licence of radio amateur, can apply for being a member of our website. The membership of our website is completely free of charge. All registered members of our website can easily update their information and profiles from the Internet and there is no paper work or forms to be completed. All operations are interactive and browser-based.In general, we aim to be the most reliable source on the Web and guide for people who are interested in finding radio amateurs in any place of the world. We also aim to help radio amateurs to publish their profiles on the Internet and keep their profiles
up-to-date by using our services, which are all free of charge.

By the way, I met Ilhan along with Yasar TA5M and the rest of the Radio Active Guys during a keyboard-to-keyboard QSO using packet radio via the Internet to the Adana Gateway.
The Adana Gateway offered radio coverage across southern Turkiye and over the Mediterranean into the TRNC - The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The gateway was constructed and maintained by Ilhan. If Ilhan was the tech guru, then Yasar was the teacher. For a number of years, I would receive e-mail from Yasar offering personal insight into world events, both historical and contemporary. Also, I had an equally interesting packet conversation with Mustafa Topukcu - 1B1A during a nice tropo opening between Adana and the TRNC one evening. It has been a number of years since I've heard from the Radio Active Guys. I hope all is well.

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