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AMATEUR BROADCASTING - A WINDOW ON THE WORLD

Amateur broadcasting is a very popular hobby among paraplegics. Nowadays it is perhaps a little "endangered" by the Internet, but we believe it will never lose its charm - at least not in the present generation.

In the 1970's, when we, paraplegics in Slovenia, were already organized, the greatest development of our amateur broadcasting was rcorded, while the very beginning among individual enthusiasts goes much further back. The pioneer of amateur broadcasting among paraplegics is beyond all question Ivan Peršak (the President of the Association), who as an expert and enthusiast aroused a keen interest in this fascinating hobby among more and more paraplegics. It should be said that amateur broadcasting is so attractive and an absolutely equal activity for paraplegics because of their being disabled. It is true that we, due to our inability to reach the highest peaks, can not become top competitors, nevertheless, we are no less enchanted by it. What a wondefull feeling it is when on a winter evening you talk to an operator somewhere on the other side of the world, and he tells you in his report that the weather there is unbearably hot.

Modern equipment permits even our most seriously disabled members, quadriplegics, to make demanding radio contacts. Nothing is impossible! Precisely one of our members, a quadriplegic in a wheelchair, has transmitted from the highest peak in Slovenia - Triglav (2864 m).
Among the 850 members of the Association of Paraplegics there are almost 100 radio amateurs, who proved their allegiance also during the Slovene war for independence, for which we were given special acknowledgement by the then Defence Minister.

Our call signal is S53 DSI.
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our email : zveza.paraplegikov@guest.arnes.si

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