Frank Halaburak wrote:

"Koikus" wrote in message
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On May 26, 3:52 pm, "Frank Halaburak"
wrote:
Received today with an e-mail letter opener
and sked in 8 days ! they even mention to send
a reception report and they will send a QSL !
Wow, what a great idea ! LOL, still waiting on
a Radio Jordan QSL, reports sent in Feb/05
and Oct/06............... Frank

Your comment about waiting on the Radio Jordan QSL brought back an old
memory for me. Back in the 1980's when I finally managed to pry a QSL
out of them, the route I finally took was writing a cover letter to
King Hussein who was an amateur radio operator. Evidentally that
tactic worked because I promptly received a QSL from the station in
about a month or so. Whether he was instrumental in that or not, I'd
like to think so, hi hi.

Koikus, thanks for the anecdote. Well, I can't write to the King
since he passed away in 1999. I have to keep trying I guess...........

My interesting experience was that I talked to King Hussein on the radio. At the
time he was talking to another amateur in Kenya on 15 meters. I had no idea who
he was at the time but I just wanted to see if I could be heard in Kenya (I was
using CW, the only mode I could use at the time, and was crystal controlled). So
I broke into their QSO, and both came back to me.

Unfortunately, I never attempted to QSL either one of them :-(

This was in the 70-72 time frame.

When King Hussein passed away I sent my condolences via an on-line guestbook
somewhere, can't recall, and related the story about talking to him on the
radio. About 2 months later, I received a very nice personal letter from HRH
Princess Ghida Talal, who was at least at that time, the Director of the
International Press Office.