The special event callsign PP105ASN was on the air for 11 days in June - but the YL being honoured has been on the air for 49 years - and she has been on the planet for 105. Her name is Alda Schlemm Niemeyer, who is known widely as "Grandma Alda."

To mark her 105th birthday this past spring, her fellow members in the Blumenau Amateur Radio Club used SSB and FT8 on HF -- as well as 2m FM simplex. The club's president, Mauro Cerqueira Leite, PP5BSD, told Newsline there were a total of 1,200 QSOs and they were acknowledged via digital QSL.