Michael Black wrote:

On Sat, 1 Oct 2016, analogdial wrote:


They should at least try to keep up. Herman Munster talked to Martians
with his ham radio 50 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqM1xeseX98

But he didn't win an award.

There's actually a cup waiting, has been since the twenties or thirties,
for the first ham to contact mars. I guess it was mostly a joke, on the
other hand back then Mars wsa big in the news, all those canals. And radio
was still developing, going for greater and greater distances, so why not
set ones sights on another planet?

I'm not sure of the exact rules, though.

Michael


Disqualified on a technicality. Herman Munster didn't contact Martians
on Mars, but Martians in a spaceship near Earth.