This was a ham-radio connection, made during the bus trip around the US after the publication of Computing Across America. We stayed with K0PP for a few days, and had the fun of connecting my 5-watt Ten-Tec Argonaut 515 rig to my host’s monobander and working a DX pile-up via QRP from a rare county…

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During the school bus epoch, wandering the US with Maggie, we stayed for a few days with K0PP, a ham-radio friend in Anaconda, Montana. This is one of the two newspaper articles about that event (the other is here), and there is a tale in the “Miles with Maggie” series about exploits on the HF…

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