This was a fine, laid back place to live and work. The weather was generally warm and humid, but it was easy to get used to. We, who worked at the transmitter building, rode a cable car from the harbor edge and up across the harbor to the Mt. Alava site. A really breathtaking view that I never tired of.

Among my neighbors and fellow workers were Jerry, KS6DH, and John, KS6EZ. Jerry is now K0JJ and lives in Oregon. John has his KS6EZ back ,via the vanity callsign program, and lives in Texas.

Larry, AH8LG (ex-KS6DV), was another active ham on the island and is still there.

We all had beams and towers and, living on the same intersection, it made it easy to operate multi/multi in contests, by running coax and control cables across the street to Jerry's house. Great fun! We (KS6DH) held the Oceania CQWW SSB m/m record for a few years. (Think KH6RS took it later).

I collected a bunch of awards from my Samoa operating. Most of the JA, VK and ZL awards. I got the #2 5BWAS awarded to a KS6. Jerry got the first one. Of course, DXCC and WAZ. Also, got the Totem Award and the California award.

My family and I left Samoa in May 1974 and moved to Eugene, Oregon.