Safari on 40 metres

They are hunting on 40 metres, but its not DX that these pirate operators are after. It's wild animals.

Ted Alleyne, 5Z4NU, reports that a safari group is operating on 7.056 MHz in Tanzania and it has been very active. The operators are on daily and hold nets well into the evening,
using English, Afrikaans and other languages. They also appear to be immune to authority, as complaints to the telecom regulators have proved completely unsuccessful so far.

Of the other principal intruders into our bands, it appears that a group of Somali operators are still on the air from Nairobi. They are on 7.057, 14.066 and 14.240 MHz regularly.

A move of the new Somali interim government from Nairobi to Jowhar north of Mogadishu seems not to have changed the intruder situation in any way.

Source: Wireless Institute of Australia

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