What in common?

[Basil]

What do the following list of people have in common?
1. Chet Akins
2. Priscilla Presley
3. Donnie Osmond
4. Barry Goldwater
5. Yuri Gagarin
6. King Hussein of Jordan
7. Queen Noor of Jordon
8. Joe Walsh of the Eagles
9. Dick Rutan
10. Jim Croce
11. Art Bell
12. Walter Cronkite
13. Paul Tibbets (Enola Gay)
14 Curtis Lemay
15. Gary Shandling
16. Tim Allen

You can ask questions that can be answered yes or no.

 

[waltesefalcon]

Are they all pilots?

 

[BobHaskell]

Owned a British sports car?

 

[Dee]

RADIOS?

 

[NutmegCT]

I'm backing Walt. Are/were they all pilots?

 

[Basil]

RADIOS?

We have a winner! They are/were all licensed Ham Radio operators.

 

[NutmegCT]

Never in a million years would I have guessed that.

Wonder if KY2 (Queen Noor) ever contacted K7UGA (Barry Goldwater).

 

[Boink]

N7ALJ here... though haven't used it in years (but keep it active).

 

[Nelson]

N7ALJ here... though haven't used it in years (but keep it active).

I had a ten minute chat with king Hussein while he was on a flight heading to talk to Jimmy Carter. I have a nice card that was sent to me as confirmation of our QSO as we hams call our contacts. I'm K8DJC in the ham world.

 

[Basil]

I had a ten minute chat with king Hussein while he was on a flight heading to talk to Jimmy Carter. I have a nice card that was sent to me as confirmation of our QSO as we hams call our contacts. I'm K8DJC in the ham world.

That's very cool!