Justin Bieber gets Class A ham radio license

Justin Bieber gets Class A ham radio license

The Neue Westfälische reports 13-year-old Justin Bieber DJ5KM is one of Germany's youngest radio amateurs

Justin, no connection with a singer of the same name, lives in Bielefeld 350 km west of Berlin. He celebrated his 13th birthday on June 20.
Just five days earlier while aged 12, he passed the exam for the Federal Network Agency Class A license. His previous Class E callsign was DO2JUS and is equivalent to the UK Intermediate.

During his interview with the news reporter Justin worked GB2IWM the Duxford Radio Society station at the Imperial War Museum and G1TDN in Kingston Upon Hull but unfortnately the published callsigns were mangled.

Justin also worked Walter Randolph G0KCC who gave his location as "near Southampton" (Poole). When Justin told him his age and said that he had just passed his Class A exam Walter said "Congratulations, we need more young people to join us." Walter is 78 years old.

Justin pointed out to the reporter that amateur radio can save lives after a disaster were the existing infrastructure has failed. It can also provide an important means of communication in areas like the South Pole. The German Antarctic research station Neumayer III has an amateur radio station and Justin intends to talk to a radio amateur he knows there Marcus Heger DL1MH.

Read the full story in Deutsch at
http://www.nw.de/lokal/kreis_herfor...zu-Deutschlands-juengsten-Amateurfunkern.html


http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2016/june/justin-bieber-gets-class-a-ham-radio-license.htm

 

Although congrats to this young man, and all young hams, on their licensing, I am puzzled what the actual 'hook' is in this news account...

 

I am thinking So Watt Too.

 

QRZ is getting worse than Yahoo News.

 

Not sure that's even possible.

 

Now I know the answer to that question, "Who the @#$% is Justin Beaver?"

 

It is a Facebook thing.

The OP posted a link so that you can follow and become a fan.

 

It was easy knowing it was not the other Justin Bieber because nobody would ever associate him & Class A for sure.

Clayton
W4KVW

 

To average-aged hams: If you don't know who "The Other" Justin Bieber is, ask your grand-daughters.
To the younger hams like DJ5KM, welcome to a lifetime of communications fun.

 

How so it's not that little bastard that was deported from from canada to disneyland and enslaved into do whap music? not like william shatner who defect to Kansas City MO USA
hahaha ;>]

 

Thank goodness!!

 

Congratulations to DJ5KM.

The headline is standard G4TUT rubbish.

 

Congrats to Justin Bieber.

Nice clickbait article QRZ... I see what you did there