Some Alaska Hamradio Humor


This page originates in Alaska
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Moose Tasting Tower Guy Wires
It's real, not Photoshopped.

Moose calf investigating ham radio coax

Moose tangled in antenna ropes
He was in rut and looking for trouble.

Moose looking inside window like ordering at McDonalds

Young Grizzly bear visitor near antenna tower
It's a good idea to have a watchdog when you're busy on the antennas.



Group of DXers at a dinner gathering

Moose calf operating amateur radio gear

Alaska amateur radio tower party group

KL7 mobile dog sled setup Moose interacting with vehicle tire
Frozen ice shack hallucination QRP portable emergency radio operation
DX mobile expedition vehicle Arctic weatherized antenna rotor

Animated Igloo with rotating antenna


DX Bulletins
DX Magazine publication cover

Fish DX animated banner graphic

Below is a tribute to the company over 4 decades of DX'ing in Alaska... keeping those pesky moose out of the antennas.

Corgi partners now gone, time flies.

Author's historical sled dog companion New KL7 station layout Shorty the Corgi companion

My current moose chaser below; a blue eyes merle American Shepard (Mini Aussie).
Living with a herding breed; she runs the place, the wife and I just live here!

Tessa the Mini Australian Shepherd moose chaser

P.S. I went to the dogs long ago, used to mush my dog team in the early 1970's but had no ham radio gear involved. One never forgets the serenity of mushing a team of huskies and the nostalgia of another era.

Historical photo of Les mushing a dog team in the 1970s