ARLA/CLUSTER: O cosmonauta Yuri Gagarin foi radioamador.?

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Was Gagarin a Radio Ham ?

A new amateur radio promotional leaflet produced by the Dutch national
society *VERON* perpetuates the myth that Yuri Gagarin was a radio amateur

VERON has made the leaflet available in a convenient PDF format to enable
amateurs to print it out to give away at fairs, open days, or just to
friends, family or neighbours.

As well as providing a good explanation of the hobby the leaflet lists some
famous radio amateurs, one of those they quote is *Yuri Gagarin UA1LO*.

This myth appears to have arisen from an article by Joe Kasser G3ZCZ in the
March/April 1981 issue of the AMSAT Orbit magazine. In it he says that Yuri
Gagarin, the first person to fly in space, was UA1LO. Joe based that
assertion on the fact that W8DX had received a QSL card for a contact that
took place on May 19, 1962 from a Russian radio amateur UA1LO whose name
just happened to be "Yuri".

The QSL card contained a picture of Yuri Gagarin, but it was not unknown
for Russian amateurs of the time to celebrate the historic achievement in
this way. The spaceflight had taken place just over a year earlier and was
a source of immense pride to many Russians.

Given that the last name of UA1LO was not given on the card, and Yuri is
anyway a common name in Russia, the connection appears tenuous.

To date, no-one has provided any evidence that Yuri Gagarin ever held an
amateur licence.

Download the VERON amateur radio leaflet at
https://www.veron.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Zendamateur-radioamateur-of-radiozendamateur.pdf

2002 AMSAT Bulletin Board explanation of the confusion about UA1LO
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/amsat-bb/200209/msg00249.html

A list of more than 100 Cosmonauts and Astronauts who have held amateur
radio licenses is at
http://www.ariss.org/hams-in-space.html
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