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Friday, October 11, 2019
4U1UN Making Progress Toward Return to Air
4U1UN's SteppIR
vertical on the roof
of United Nations
headquarters in
New York City. (From 4U1UN Face- book page)
Members of the
United Nations Staff Recreation Council Amateur Radio Club, working with UN
staff and administration, report making progress toward getting 4U1UN back on
the air on a regular basis. The station lost its 41st-floor operating position
as a result of a major renovation of the UN headquarters building several years
ago. According to a post on the club's website, current plans call for the station
to be remotely operated from a tiny room on the building's ground floor while
the equipment is reinstalled on the 41st floor, with easy access to the roof
for feedlines. Station configuration is continuing, the club says, with the
hope of getting back on the air regularly "in the very near future."