<div dir="auto">Update, I have received a few more donations, for which i am very grateful. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Nick UR6QV / UT5Q has requested a change in shipping plans. He has asked me to send the two units to Germany, instead of Poland. I am not sure why, but I suspect it has to do with import duties and the state of relations between Poland and Ukraine. There was some friction there for a while about agricultural transshipments eating into Polish farmer profits, but I thought that had been resolved. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Anyway, I am now looking for the best way to send the items to Germany and should have them out the door this weekend. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">An interesting piece of info... my wife's cousin was housing Ukrainian refugee families for a while in her very large home in Przemysl where she raised four boys and one girl. I've been there several times and it's right next to the Ukrainian border. Not quite shouting, but definitely screaming distance. 🤣🤣🤣</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The reason I mention this is that I asked one of her sons the other day how many families were still there and if she needed any supplies. Turns out they have all moved on into Western Europe and the US, absorbed into other established Ukrainian communities. This is REALLY good news for the children in particular, whom I am sure we're stressed out about the language barriers, etc. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thought you folks might want to know. 😎</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">73,</div><div dir="auto">Juan</div><div dir="auto">K1CPR</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 12:55 Juan Jiménez <<a href="mailto:k1cpr@bd5.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">k1cpr@bd5.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>So far I have received $75 in donations! Thanks to those who decided to help. Payday is next week, and as I said, I will pay the difference to get this shipped one way or the other. Anybody else interested in contributing?</div><div><br></div><div><div>I can receive donations via PayPal (<a href="mailto:twiter@herdhecats.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">twiter@herdthecats.com</a>), Venmo (@juan-jimenez-677) or Zelle (781-491-3934). Please type "UKRAINE" in the comment field for any donations so i can identify them and set them aside.</div><div><br></div></div><div>And please keep your comments about why I am doing this for Ukraine and not helping people locally to yourself. I have family there and don't need to justify my actions to you or anyone else. If you want to set up your own initiatives for local use, go right ahead.</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>73,<div>K1CPR</div><div>Juan</div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 11:31 AM Juan Jiménez <<a href="mailto:k1cpr@bd5.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">k1cpr@bd5.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi folks,</div><div><br></div><div>Once again I am looking for help to pay for the cost of shipping radio equipment to the Zaporizhzhia amateur radio club in Ukraine. As a reminder, members of this club work to distribute all sorts of HF/VHF/UHF equipment across the country to act as a safety net in areas where the Russians are destroying communications infrastructure. In many areas, the radios are the only lifeline they have to communicate with the rest of the country.</div><div><br></div><div>This time I am not shipping radios or supplies, I am shipping two key pieces of test equipment they requested to be able to repair the radios they already have, a Marconi Communications Test Set model 2955 and a BK Precision 2630 spectrum analyzer which I bought last week.</div><div><br></div><div>There are two ways to ship via Meest, by boat or by air. There are no lithium batteries in the equipment so it can be shipped by air, unlike the last time where the handies had lithium batteries. By air will cost around $400 delivered in Ukraine in a few days, by boat it will be 4-6 weeks and about $200.</div><div><br></div><div>If anyone is interested in participating, I can receive donations via PayPal (<a href="mailto:twiter@herdhecats.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">twiter@herdthecats.com</a>), Venmo (@juan-jimenez-677) or Zelle (781-491-3934). Please type "UKRAINE" in the comment field for any donations so i can identify them and set them aside.</div><div><br></div><div>If I get enough to pay for this I will send out another email letting everyone know there is no need for further donations. If more money is received than the cost of the shipping, the difference will be set aside for the next Ukraine project. If there isn't enough then I will make up the difference. One way or another I will get this equipment out to them by next month.</div><div><br></div><div>73,</div><div>Juan</div><div>K1CPR</div><div><br></div></div>
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