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Boden Fortress - A long time secret place in Sweden

During the first world war the secret Boden Fortress was completed with its five very huge forts blasted into mountains surrounding Boden city in northern Sweden. They all were abunded as late as in 1998. The Rödberget fort is now a major tourist attraction in Boden. Björn, SM0YUZ knows a lot of these places and he took me on a guided tour to some of them. Many photos can be seen here (sorry text in Swedish) and here you can read the fascinating story of Boden Fortress. Björn, SM0YUZ standing in front of the huge Stora Åberget fort. The ugly Radiobunkern in Boden Fortress is a historical site as it was from here in 1921 the first public broadcast programmes in Sweden were transmitted. Link to an article in a Swedish newspaper.

Archives and TS-430S

Last year I bought an old transceiver, the Kenwood TS-430S, to be used in the shack at my No. 2 QTH in northern Sweden. For some time I have tried to find an advertisement for it from that time when the radio was new on the market. Then I was informed that 73 Magazine could be found at Internet Archive . 73 Magazine was published for more than 40 years, from 1960 to 2003. I tried to download the 1984 December issue and there the advertisement was. I also read in it the regular Never Say Die editorial by the the famous Wayne Green, W9NSD/1. The editorial was about the death of amateur radio. A popular concept to write about over the years. Luckily this has still not happen. Today there is an all time high population in the U.S., 700,000 hams! This old TS-430S radio works great. Below is a video clip when recently listening on 80 m on a pile-up for Pat, K6AAX/VY2 on Prince Edward island in Canada. I managed to work him using the TS-430S and a G5RV antenna hanging...

Inventor John Kanzius, K3TUP

Update February 21, 2009 John Kanzius, K3TUP, of Erie, Pennsylvania, passed away February 18 in Florida from pneumonia. He was 64. Kanzius was best known for his research into finding a cure for cancer using radio waves, specifically 13.56 MHz. Read more at www.arrl.org. The US monthly amateur radio magazine CQ has in its January 2009 issue a very interesting and fascinating interview with John Kanzius, whose US amateur radio call sign is K3TUP. John, who unluckely has a bad form of cancer, is a brilliant inventor. In 2006 in the middle of the night he got an idea how to cure cancer by using radio waves. So he immediately started to build a machine out of his amateur radio gear and his wife´s pie plates and injecting copper sulfate into hot dogs! Later on during a demonstration in Canada salt water in a test tube caught fire! This second thing is also under research now. The CQ magazine has a special article about getting energy from salt water. You can download the article here: htt...

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