Die HZ1AB Collection

Very much under construction
HZ1AB Homepage: https://www.qsl.net/hz1ab/index.html

A Die HZ1AB Collection im Dokumentationsarchiv Funk

Von 1947 bis zur Schließung 2019 war HZ1AB die legitimierte Amateurfunkstation in Saudi-Arabien. Jeder Funkamateur auf Länderjagd musste sich daher um einen Kontakt mit HZ1AB bemühen. Die 170.000 in Dharan eingelangten QSL-Karten, darunter viele Raritäten, sind ein repräsentativer Beleg für die Entwicklung des Funkwesens. Nach eineinhalb Jahren der Vorbereitung wird die HZ1AB Collection, die weltweit zweitgrößte Privatsammlung, nun an DokuFunk zur Bewahrung und wissenschaftlichen Aufarbeitung übergeben. Der Transport der 500kg schweren Ladung - mit Kosten von 2.500$ - wurde mit einer Sammelaktion in den USA finanziert.

03-05 - These are the wood cabinets that Walt, W7SE built in Saudi Arabia and used to pack the QSL cards. He shipped these cabinets filled with the cards to his home in Wyoming when he retired from Aramco in 1994. He did not consider further sorting the cards, as this was the state of the collection that Walt wanted to be sent to Austria.
06 - The HZ1AB project team started the job of packing the cards in July 2020
07 -An impressive lot of boxes to be shipped. Thanks to international support the +$2.000 costs for transport amnd taxes could be shouldered
08 - 28. September 2020: The container is on it's way
09/10 - 01. October 2020: The container arrived in Vienna
11/12 - Temporary installation in the Archive's storerooms
13 - One of the 120 boxes to be processed
14/15 - Documentary estate stored in the DokuFunk Archive

B HZ1AB QSL Gallery

Auswahl/Selection

C Photo Album

01 - The 1952-54 HZ1AB station in the Quonset hut a block up from the theater. The equipment shown is a Collins R-388/51J receiver, WRL Globe King; the VFO is a Meissner Signal Shifter. The antenna was a Gordon 20 and 10 meter yagi interlaced on the same boom. The rotor was also a Gordon, which was a continuous rotating type. The antenna was fed with kilowatt twin lead through slip rings built into the rotor housing
02 - A typical station configuration in the 1990's. Ten-Tec transceiver and kilowatt amp, old RF Comm RF-103 (single 3-1000Z) and other commercial ham gear. This particular setup was in a portable building. The antennas used were a rhombic, military rotatable horizontal log periodic and a Force 12 5BA
03 - Bengt, SM5CCT, Contest operator
04 - Terry Posey, K4RX 1981
05 - US Military Training Mission Barrack Shack, 01.02.1988
06 - US Military Training Mission Communications Portable Shack 1990/1991
07 - Robert Walsh, WA8MOA 1980
08 - US Military Training Mission Airport Terminal Shack 1980
09 - US Military Training Mission Airport Terminal Shack 1981
10 - Presentation of HZ1AB Appreciation Plaque to David L. Shepherd, K3DTU - President 1995-1997 by C.R. "Dick" McCarty, W5GVH
13 - Rear Admiral Scott Redd, K0DQ

D Operators

by Dave K7JJ (Last updated October, 2003)

Nachlass / Documentary Estate HZ1AB

Provenienz: Dhahran Amateur Radio Club