Welcome to the OH2BH 50th Birthday Celebration!
JUBA is the center of the Autonomous Southern Region of the Sudan. The area close
to the Equator is different from the rest of the country, not only in terms of a more favourable climate
and tropical nature, but also in regard to its people with a different color, race, religion and language.
Ours was the first flight made in three months across the 400-mile desert along the Nile River. We stayed for four
days in the area previously isolated due to cholera. People mostly plagued by chronic malaria were extremly friendly
to foreigners assisting them in health care, education and other programs.
9.000 QSOs were made from the Juba Hotel were Nile fish was served for breakfast, lunch and dinner due to a
food shortage. The equipment functioned flawlessly on a shaky 160 VAC - only the Dentron relay circuit had to be
rewired for our 12 VDC battery which supplied our power during the hougs of darkness.
We are extremly grateful to Dr. Sid Ahmed Ibrahim, ST2SA and Mr. Eduard Bashier of the Ministry of Information of the
Southern Region for making this operation possible.
There are hundreds of people in Eastern Africa starving every day. The refugee camps in Somalia and Sudan have nearly
two million people. DROUGHT is destroying a whole generation. We cannot give them rain. Food we can. A fund is established by the Red Cross
for this area. Please contact OH2BAD for details.