I never had the opportunity to work JY1, former King of Jordan, Hussein I. , but in the life of a radio amateur there are many opportunities to get into contact with famous people around the globe. Below you will find a list of interesting QSO-partners, I have worked in the recent years.
OH73ELK 24.01.2023 - 11:24 UTC, 12m with 59 30.12.2018 - 12.27 UTC, 20m with 59
You wonder, why I call the ELK a VIP?
I always admired this majestic animal since I first time visited Finland - the Country of the 1000 lakes - in 1970. Since then the elk has been one of my favourite animals.
My first contact with Special Callsign OH73ELK and (x)yl Raisa I had at the end of the year 2018, some others followed later.

28.01.2023 Today I received a personal and very kind mail from Raisa and Alex, telling me that I am No. 300 getting the beautiful ELK AWARD. Tnx a lot for that nice "present"!
Please have a click on the left ELK AWARD to get the rules for it!

N1UL 26.03.2022 - 06:16 UTC, 40m in FT8
I worked Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. mult. Ulrich L. Rohde in the early morning hours that day, when he connected to my cq call. (Worked him another times on 40m, also in FT8.)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. mult. Ulrich L. Rohde is a partner of Rohde & Schwarz, Munich Germany; Chairman of Synergy Microwave Corp., Paterson, New Jersey; President of Communications Consulting Corporation; an honorary member of the Senate of the Armed Forces University Munich; honorary member of the Senate of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus–Senftenberg; and past member of the Board of Directors of Ansoft Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Rohde serves as an honorary professor at IIT Delhi, full professor at Oradea University, Romania, and visiting professor at Technical University Munich, Germany. Prior to Honorary Professor of RF and Microwave Technologies at the University of Cottbus, Dr. Rohde was a member of the staff at George Washington University (1982) and as an adjunct professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville, teaching in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences departments, gave numerous lectures worldwide regarding communications theory and digital frequency synthesizers.



Santa Claus Land (Arctic Circle)
Bildquelle: www.qrz.com
Leila A Zaidan
- first Saudi woman to obtain a Ham license in the Western province of Saudi Arabia and nowadays the only active YL in the whole country
- daughter of Sheikh Ahmad Zaidan, who was the first Saudi to obtain an amateur radio license in 1949Bildquelle: www.qrz.com

- President of the "FIFTH OCEAN" flying HAMS club
- Rating Instructor / Examiner Airbus 319/320/321
- Captain-Instructor Boeing 737-200 (1993-1995)
- Captain Boeing 757 (1996-1998)
- Flight Instructor Tu204-100 (1999-2000)



- verh., 2 Kinder
- Forschungskosmonaut auf der Weltraumstation Saljut-7
- zweimaligerKommandant der Weltraum-station MIR
- zwei Außenbordeinsätze mit 10h 22 min Gesamtdauer
- Vater des Kosmonauten 2. Generation Sergei Volkov
- Alexander lebt jetzt in der Region Moskau.

Dieses QSO mit dem russischen Kosmonauten ist für mich ein Beweis, dass es nicht immer nur Sinn macht, das DX-Cluster abzuklappern und auf rare DX-Stationen zu warten, sondern dass auch gelegentliche eigene CQ-Rufe interessante Partner hervorbringen können. Hätte Alex selbst einen CQ-Ruf gestartet, so wäre er wahrscheinlich in Kürze im Pile-Up versunken und ich hätte keine Chance gehabt, mit ihm auf diese nette Weise ins Gespräch zu kommen.


RV6LMG/am 04.08.2012 - 10:54 UTC
Eine handgeschriebene QSL von ihm kam postwendend an meine Heimatadresse.

- geb. 22.03.1951 in Baku, Aserbaidschanische SSR
- verh., 2 Kinder
- Test-Kosmonaut und Bordingenieur während zweier Missionen zur MIR
- 7 Außenbordeinsätze mit 34 h 32 min Gesamtdauer
- 2007 in die DUMA, das russische Parlament gewählt.




