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This is the history of three travelers spanning the birth of YASME--the boat that carried young sailor Danny Weil on his first voyages beginning in 1954--and the lives of famed ham radio DXpeditioners Lloyd and Iris Colvin. The Colvins' worldwide adventures continue to be recounted in ham radio circles, epitomizing the spirit of international friendship through Amateur Radio and their 30-year association with the YASME Foundation.

Contents

• 1. The Birth of YASME
• 2. Early Years: Lloyd Colvin and Iris Atterbury
• 3. The Army and The War Years
• 4· Assignment Post-War Japan
• 5· Stateside in the Early 1950s
• 6· Danny Weil and YASME in The New World
• 7· Danny Weil's First Dxpedition Voyage
• 8· The DX Century Club - 1955-Style
• 9· Danny Weil's 1955 Pacific Voyage
• 10· The Colvins in Germany
• 11· A Cold War Tale
• 12· YASME I in the Pacific: 1956
• 13· Danny Weil on the Lecture Circuit
• 14· The Colvins Settle in California
• 15· "Ham Colonel First to Win World-Wide Award"
• 16· The FCC Comes to Visit W6KG
• 17· England, and a New Boat for Danny Weil
• 18· YASME II Begins With Controversy
• 19· On the Rocks in the Caribbean
• 20· Genesis of the YASME Foundation
• 21· More Crew, and Radios, for YASME
• 22· The First Voyage of YASME III
• 23· "I MARRIED DX"
• 24· Off to Clipperton - "No Picnic"
• 25· The Soul Searching Begins
• 26· A Plea to DXCC
• 27· The Colvins in California, 1958-1964
• 28· Life in the Home Front Military
• 29· Treading in Danny Weil's Footsteps
• 30· Return to Civilian Life, 1961
• 31· Dick McKercher, W0MLY's African Operations
• 32· Danny and Naomi in the Pacific
• 33· The Colvins, and Changing of the Guard
• 34· Enter Don Miller
• 35· Ebon Atoll - The DXCC "Country" That Wasn't
• 36· Exit Don Miller
• 37· Colvins' First Dxpedition Concludes
• 38· Pacific Islands Operations, 1976
• 39· The Caribbean and Central America, 1976-79
• 40· The Mediterranean and Caribbean, 1980-81
• 41· East Africa and the Middle East, 1982
• 42· South America, 1983-1984
• 43· Foundation Business, Then Off to Africa, 1985
• 44· Indian Ocean and Mexico
• 45· The Himalayas and Grecian Isles
• 46· The Americans are Coming!
• 47· The Honors and Awards Begin
• 48· Africa and Southeast Asia
• 49· Turkey, 1993, the Last Colvin Expedition
• Appendix 1, CQ DX Hall of Fame
• Appendix 2, Danny Weil Call Signs
• Appendix 3, Colvin Operations/Call Signs
• Appendix 4, Colvins’ List of Countries Visited

Commissioned by The YASME Foundation and published by ARRL.

320 page. © 2003, The American Radio Relay League.