G3EMU

op. Mr. Ivan Cline (silent key)
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This QSL-card was sent to my father. I wrote to Mr. Ivan Cline in 1989 and asked him to find English pen-pal for me. That time I was in a high school. Mr. Cline's grandaughter Angela became my pen-pal but her grandfather also wrote me from time to time. In July 1997 I'd got an opportunity to visit England but unfortunately I had not met Mr. Cline there because he had passed in 1995 (18th March). But I met her wife Mrs. Ivy Cline who showed me the house where her husband lived and radio shack from which he worked on the bands.
ITU Reg 1- ITU Zone 27- CQ Zone 14
QTH: 15 Knight Ave., Canterbury, Kent, CT2 8PZ
On the photo you can see Mrs. Ivy Cline and Angela in front of the house from where G3EMU worked for over 40 years.

Quotation from Mr. Ivan Cline's letter to me:

"My radio shack is a small wooden place in the back garden, it is about 2*3 metres so not very much room in there. I do mostly CW on the HF bands and most fone is on 145Mhz. I am also now interested in what we call packet radio. This is with a computer connected to the radio and all is controlled from teh keyboard, very much like RTTY. I have also built a receiver for receiving the American and Russian weather satellites. I have had many CW QSOs via the Russian Radio."

1990