Weil’s wife, Naomi, accompanied him on some of his maritime journeys to rare DX venues. At one point, Bill Halligan, W9AC, of Hallicrafters fame, offered Weil $2000 worth of gear with the stipulation that he not use any other manufacturer’s equipment. He also prompted Weil’s fund-raising tour in 1956 to more than 100 ham radio clubs and gatherings. Another ham radio legend, Dick Spenceley, KV4AA, created the Yasme Foundation to provide funding for Weil’s excursions. It also offers a look into the DXCC program from the 1950s through 2000.īetween 19, Weil sailed to various exotic locations in his yawl Yasme (four different boats in all) to operate, escaping dangerous and life-threatening disasters more than once along the way. “I had a lot of words and even entire sentences left in me.”Ĭain’s book documents the lives and DX adventures of Danny Weil, VP2VB - of Yasme fame - and of Iris and Lloyd Colvin, W6QL and W6KG. “Even after years of writing a DX newsletter and then publishing dozens of feature articles in QST, I guess I hadn’t got it out of my system yet,” Cain said, recounting the book offer that was too good to pass up. It includes some as-originally-intended revisions to the text as well as a new introduction.
The Yasme Foundation has released two chronicles of amateur radio DX history that make for compelling reading - a downloadable edition of Yasme: The Danny Weil and Colvin Radio Expeditions, by Jim Cain, K1TN, and the extended article Danny Weil - a Dreamer of Distant Lands Who Took the Amateur Radio Trip of a Lifetime, by Martti Laine, OH2BH.Ĭain’s 324-page history, initially published by ARRL in 2003 and now out of print, is available for the first time in a downloadable format at no cost.
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