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Can I Have “Amateur Radio” for $800, Alex?

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If you were watching the popular television game show Jeopardy! -- where contestants have to answer in the form of a question -- on December 15, you might have noticed there was a question featuring Amateur Radio. In the first round, returning champ Boomie Aglietti was playing the category “Pastimes” when he encountered this “answer” worth $800: “The FCC assigns call signs, like N8DNR, to use i...





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Really? ARRL membership dues are spent putting stories like this together?
 
m42duster said:
Righteous of them to recognize his hobby.
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No doubt about it.

I still take issue with ARRL having someone sitting around putting these fluff pieces together.

Oh and from what I remember, ARRL staff salaries were over $6 million several years ago...fluff fluff fluff
 
GLR said:
No doubt about it.

I still take issue with ARRL having someone sitting around putting these fluff pieces together.

Oh and from what I remember, ARRL staff salaries were over $6 million several years ago...fluff fluff fluff
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Screw the ARRL...

I'm talking about the Jeopardy staff recognizing his hobby.
 
GLR is being very bad natured towards the ARRL. They do so much for us and you begrugde them their meager stipend for their services. :eek:
 
pro151 said:
GLR is being very bad natured towards the ARRL. They do so much for us and you begrugde them their meager stipend for their services. :eek:
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Meager stipend indeed. It's not just the ARRL, several more are just like it. They all start for the right reasons but quickly become a bloated money grab.
 

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