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   ARLX002 Bangladesh Amateur Radio League Founder Saif Shahid, S21A   
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   QST de W1AW    
   Special Bulletin 2  ARLX002   
   From ARRL Headquarters    
   Newington CT  January 18, 2022   
   To all radio amateurs   
      
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   ARLX002 Bangladesh Amateur Radio League Founder Saif Shahid, S21A   
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   Saif D. Shahid, S21A/KF6WJZ/G1NWJ, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, died   
   on January 10. He was 73. Shahid was the founder and President of   
   the Bangladesh Amateur Radio League (BARL), which was established   
   after more than 12 years of hard lobbying and negotiating with   
   government officials by Shahid and others. Until then, amateur radio   
   operation from Bangladesh had been sporadic and of questionable   
   legality.   
      
   The BARL became an International Amateur Radio Union (IARU)   
   member-society in 1988. Shahid, whose background was in mechanical   
   engineering and information technology, was the first Bangladeshi   
   national to be licensed. He had been living in the US since 1999   
   with his family, which includes his wife Mamtaz, S21J/KF6WJY - the   
   first woman to be licensed in Bangladesh - and daughter Maria Ashna,   
   S21JA/ex-KF6WJX.   
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