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onsdag, december 30, 2009

Kon-Tiki

'Kon-Tiki' radio ham - Silent Key
Knut Magne Haugland, LA3KY, of Norway, passed away on December 25. He was 92.
Haugland was one of six men, who with Thor Heyerdahl in 1947, successfully crossed the Pacific Ocean in a 45 foot raft made of balsa wood and bamboo - named Kon-Tiki - to prove that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
Called the "most unusual expedition ever to place reliance on Amateur Radio for communication" in the December 1947 issue of QST, Kon-Tiki departed Peru for Polynesia on April 28, 1947. ---

Haugland hade alltså radioamatörsignalen LA3KY

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