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“HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.”

Quote by Charles Simonyi

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Charles Simonyi

Charles Simonyi is a Hungarian-American entrepreneur and software engineer, known for his work at Microsoft and his contributions to the field of software engineering. Born on September 10, 1948, he has been instrumental in the development of products like Microsoft Word and Excel. more

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