is an

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operator, call sign is JA5HTP, who set distance records and has contributed to the development of amateur radio.

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He attended

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, Department of Literature at the age of 18. Graduating in 1968, he moved to Minami-daito Island to establish the longest radio traffic record in the world. Then he successfully made the radio contact with PY5BAB from

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where 19997.05 km away from Minami-daito Island is. As a result, he had become the new world record holder of the 50 MHz and it was pressed in the 1984

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. Afterward, he contributed much to the

’s developments. He served as a councilor of

Japan Amateur Radio League The Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) (in Japanese language, Japanese, 日本アマチュア無線連盟) is a national non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in Japan. JARL was founded in 1926 by Japanese radio communication ent ...

Tokushima Prefecture for six terms, the Chair of DCCS, the committee member on the investigation study of the digitalization technology for

and the Chair of Japanese Red Cross Society Tokushima Chapter, Special Volunteers consists of Radio communication from 2008. Japan Amateur Radio League applied the patent 'Network system, wireless terminal equipment, and wireless relay device' as study results, and he was announced as the joint inventor. Furthermore, he has also been interested in the next generation computer network and gave a conference seminar "Local revitalization which uses AIR Mac in the shopping district" on

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2002 as a lecturer. Lately, he is taking part in founding the Institute for Satellite Communication in Republic of

Vanuatu Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of no ...

, using the Wideband Internetworking engineering test and Demonstration Satellite "KIZUNA” (WINDS) as a part of the project of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).List of WINDS Satellite experiments
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* Norris McWhirter.

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1984.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Yamano, Tsuneyoshi Amateur radio people Japanese engineers Japan–Vanuatu relations 1946 births Living people

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