Counterpoint, it has happened to me twice, once with Lufthansa and another time with a low cost airline (Vueling). Both times I was paid without fuss. Both times I filed for it myself.
9K2ZZ, Bob, in Kuwait City, methinks. To my untrained ear, he sounded like a Texan expat and he was always 20dB over S9 when I heard him on the bands c.2000.
Always kept the QSO rate up - a typical exchange would be 'LB1LF, 59, name is Bob. 9K2ZZ QRZ?' (where QRZ? means 'Anyone else?' and 59 is the signal report)
Anyway, late one night I heard him calling without the usual pile-up of radio amateurs trying to get in contact with him. No replies. I gave him a call, and we chatted for all of 45 seconds or so before he signed off and the band was quiet.
When I got the card, it had a handwritten note on the back - 'Thanks for the rag chew!' (Ham radio lingo for a very long contact)
Well, it sure was long by his usual standards, and I still get a chuckle every time I see it.
My favorite was a station that was a sailboat off the coast of France. (PJ2HB if I remember correctly). Late one night he created a pile up. (A pile up is when a rare or unusual station is on the air and everyone is trying to contact him). I kept throwing my call in, over and over. And when he finally acknowledged, we exchanged info and when I said my QTH (my location), he stated, "oh yes, I stopped often by the restaurant in your town back when I was in school". We proceeded to have a conversation for a few minutes, while everyone was keying over us, throwing their callsigns in and just piling on. It was beautiful.
Another I was on 6 meters simplex during a band opening, talking a guy at with Cape Canaveral when he was on his lunch break.
I was the QSL manager for an Antarctic station once. That was fun.
Oh man, meteor scatter, ISS, satellite communications, SSTV, APRS... I forgot how much fun I used to have pre-internet days.
Probably depends on the accent you have. I'm from the US, and the way I say 'banana' doesn't rhyme with mañana, but I can imagine my English friends saying it, which would rhyme.
That’s an oversimplification. Saying that it’s error prone because you have to write in two places is akin to saying that using a checksum is error prone: you have to write now the vale AND the checksum! More opportunities to make an error!
Doble entry accounting is very similar to a checksum in that sense. It provides error detection. If you make a mistake in one of those two places, you will know immediately. As opposed to single entry, where you can carry that error indefinitely until somehow you catch it.
The most disappointing part for me is that they didn’t keep the promise of grandfathering plans. I’ve lost confidence in them and will most likely cancel my subscription. Luckily search is mostly fungible.
The more disappointing part for me is that they didn’t keep the promise of grandfathering plans. I’ve lost confidence in them and will most likely cancel my subscription. Luckily search is mostly fungible.
You have a lot of actual users sharing their frustrations on this thread. Yet you choose not to reply to them, and instead to someone that has not “read your book” (which point you are trying to make, I’m not sure).
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