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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
(SK)

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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