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My favorite was a station that was a sailboat off the coast of France. (PJ2HB if I remember correctly). Late one night he created a pile up. (A pile up is when a rare or unusual station is on the air and everyone is trying to contact him). I kept throwing my call in, over and over. And when he finally acknowledged, we exchanged info and when I said my QTH (my location), he stated, "oh yes, I stopped often by the restaurant in your town back when I was in school". We proceeded to have a conversation for a few minutes, while everyone was keying over us, throwing their callsigns in and just piling on. It was beautiful.

Another I was on 6 meters simplex during a band opening, talking a guy at with Cape Canaveral when he was on his lunch break.

I was the QSL manager for an Antarctic station once. That was fun.

Oh man, meteor scatter, ISS, satellite communications, SSTV, APRS... I forgot how much fun I used to have pre-internet days.