dxAce wrote:

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.


Ace, that is so cool. you should write that up for the NASWA Journal.
I remember when Goldwater died, a bunch of stories were written about
QSO's with him. i love reading about this stuff. and, after all your
years on the radio, i bet you got a bunch more great stories.

Drifter...

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