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-When in university, I was a member of a radio club affiliated with the local Students' Society. Lore had it a member had gotten in contact with JY1 once, and,
by lb1lf 6y ago
-When in university, I was a member of a radio club affiliated with the local Students' Society.
Lore had it a member had gotten in contact with JY1 once, and, much like the ham in this article, assumed he hadn't got the call down correctly. -'Please complete your call; I only got the prefix, over'
-'JY1 is my full call; name is Hussein, over'
-'How do you get a callsign like that, over?'
-'Being a king helps, over.'
- myself248 6y agoI have a feeling OP submitted this after my comment mentioned him yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23151914 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23151914 I think everyone knows that story :) and we all wish it'd been us.
- lb1lf 6y agoThat we do. I never got a contact with Hussein, but did have the (surprising!) pleasure to find out that the Argentinian ham obligingly swapping bands all the way from 20m through 17, 15 and 12m to give me a couple of new band countries as I got started on HF in 2002 was no other than former president Carlos Menem. Had no idea until the card arrived; on air, he’d described himself as a retired official.