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Would be a nightmare with all the crappy email validators out there..
by Jleagle 6y ago
Would be a nightmare with all the crappy email validators out there..
- myself248 6y agoI recall a similar story involving amateur radio. By ITU convention, amateur callsigns are [prefix][digit][suffix], like W1AW. So one night, a new ham is operating his friend's fancier station, which has the HF equipment to talk clear around the world. And they make contact with another ham identifying himself as JY1. No suffix. Well that's weird, so they look it up, the JY prefix is Jordan, okay. So the guy on the mic just asks, "why doesn't your callsign have any letters after the digit?" and the reply comes back with a chuckle, "Oh, because I am the King." That was the late King Hussein. about whom much has been written. I don't know if his call ever caused trouble with software validators, but I'd certainly believe it.
- lb1lf 6y agoI know of a callsign causing trouble with most log programs - RAEM, which Russian amateurs dust off every now and then to commemorate polar pioneer Ernst Krenkel. Took a while to get ARRL Logbook of the World credit for that one.