An usual object to surface this very day is the above ham radio call card from Dili, capital of Portuguese East Timor . It was sent in September 1974 by Portuguese Army sailor Jaoquim Cantanhede who , in a brief message to another ham operator, a Presbyterian minister of religion in North Australia, said he had two children , aged five and nine. The next year the balloon went up , the Portuguese retreated from the colony and East Timor was invaded by Indonesia.
