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I 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=

I 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 ago
That 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.