Translation for "funkamateur" to english
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Die Redaktion von De Telegraaf erfuhr von einem Funkamateur, an Bord der Freya befänden sich Terroristen, die um 12 Uhr über Kanal 20 ihre Forderungen bekanntgeben wollten.
The editor of De Telegraaf received a tip from a radio ham that there were terrorists on board the Freya and that they would issue their demands at noon. He at once ordered a radio monitor to be placed on Channel 20 with a tape recorder to catch the whole message.
Er versuchte es auszurechnen, irgendwo im Kurzwellenbereich vermutlich. Vielleicht hatte irgendein Funkamateur einmal eine singulare Stimme aufgefangen: »Ich bin der Herr dein Gott!« und dann gelangweilt weitergedreht, weil er geglaubt hatte, es mit einem Äthersonderling zu tun zu haben!
He tried to calculate, but he was no long capable. Somewhere on the shortwave band, probably. Perhaps some radio ham had once received a singular voice: "I am the Lord thy God!"—after which he had turned the dial in boredom because he thought he was dealing with a weirdo on the air!
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