Giorgio IZ4AKS sent me an e-mail asking me to check out the SMOM website of 1A4A. I did and thought I would share some of what I found.
The 1A4A team will be participating in CQ WW SSB content, using the callsign 1A3A. The use of the 3 callsign is new. They are zone 15 and in the M/2 class.
Their website is here.
Their 1A4A license was a special license grant.
From the 1A4A website: "The 1A4A license was issued as part of a fund raising campaign for the construction of a school for girls in South Sudan. We are pleased to announce that because of your generosity we were able to donate $10,000 for the project."
The 1A4A team is involved with a project called RUMBEK. For years the SMOM have been involved in Sudan in humanitarian missions. RUMBEK is a mission to build a girl's middle school in Rumbek, Sudan.
In Sudan, girls often do not get any type of education, dooming them to a life of poverty, illness, and possible prostituion.
The Runbek mission hopes to change that vicious cycle, by helping the Sudanese, to help themselves, by giving them a chance to obtain an education, one they might not otherwise obtain.
To help out on this worthy mission, you can click on the link below (it takes you outside of my weblog) and donate.
73,
K4SAC
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