And Radio Derb is back on the air! Yes, this is your irrepressibly genial host John Derbyshire with a weekly round-up of news and opinion from a dissident conservative viewpoint. Peter Brimelow, the proprietor of VDARE.com, has suggested that I explain Radio Derb’s change of location, to satisfy listener curiosity and quell unseemly rumors. I am glad to do so, although there is very little to explain; and the little that there is is not interesting or dramatic.

Vietnam War veteran John Nugent, WA2EQJ, got on the air for what likely will be his final time earlier this month, thanks to help from the Amateur Radio. ฟัง ดาวน์โหลดเพลง d2b rar ดาวน์โหลด MP3 ฟรีทันที สะดวก รวดเร็ว ง่าย.

That got me to thinking about the time I have left and what I can most usefully do with it. I would, for example, like to write another book or two before I fall off my perch. My conclusion was that I had to work less, to free up time for reading and thinking. Something had to go. Mario Party 9 Wii Ita Iso here.

With no prejudice at all to Taki’s Magazine, for whose hospitality and support I shall be for ever grateful, logic demanded that I drop my commitments to them. This was just a time-management calculation with, I repeat, absolutely no prejudice to TakiMag.

Henceforth, aside from the occasional book review in this or that magazine, IRadio Derb will be hosted here, and I shall contribute to the VDARE.com blog when I have something worth saying — occasionally, but not regularly, at full column length. My thanks once again to the proprietor and staff at Taki’s Magazine for their support, especially in when I was. If you’ve been a reader of TakiMag, I hope you’ll continue to be one. If you’ve supported them in any other way, I hope you’ll continue to do so. Here at VDARE.com I shall go on doing what I can, using whatever meager gifts I’ve been blessed with, to make myself useful in the of patriotism: “My country, right or wrong: if right, to keep her right, if wrong, to put her right.”.

Vietnam War veteran John Nugent, WA2EQJ, got on the air for what likely will be his final time earlier this month, thanks to help from the Amateur Radio community. The 75-year old US Army Signal Corps veteran, who has cancer, lives at the James A Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago, Illinois. Licensed since he was 16, he told a social worker at the facility that one item on his “bucket list” was to operate on ham radio one last time. Staffers at the facility got in touch with the Lake County Veterans Assistance Commission, and replies came from the American Legion Amateur Radio Club, the North Shore Amateur Radio Club, and (RACES), among others. “He was just over the moon,” social worker Alesia Behnke the Chicago Tribune.

“We had no idea we were going to pull it off.” The various Amateur Radio volunteers did, however, setting up an antenna outside the facility and a simple HF station inside. David Hartnett, K9DRH, and crew Don Whitney, K9DRW; James Nelson, K9QF; Harry Hahn, WB9R, and Scott Campbell, KC9SJP, were among those who made it happen. ARRL Illinois Section Manager Ron Morgan, AD9I, spread the word that WA2EQJ would be on the air.

“John is terminally ill and wanted to make some 20-meter radio contacts one last time,” a post on the Lake County RACES page recounted. “He has been in the [Lovell Center] for more than 3 years.” Nugent volunteered to serve in the Army and was wounded during his Vietnam service. On December 5, Nugent — with help from his family members and Lovell Center staff — turned on his radio and worked stations in California, Illinois, and Texas. After the contacts were in the log, Nugent’s son Chris thanked the Lake County RACES and other volunteers who facilitated his dad’s last wish.