Yesterday, 13th October 2016, King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, died at the age of 88 at the Siriraj hospital in Bangkok.
![King Bhumibol Adulyadej HS1A](https://www.hamradioreviews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/10831729_555283081281899_1651613437_n.jpg)
He was the patron of the Radio Amateur Society of Thailand (RAST). From RAST’s page on QSL.net:
His Majesty the King had been presented the callsign HS1A by the Ministry of Communications at Chitrlada Palace on August 18, 1989 in a ceremony witnessed by RAST officers. Five years later, in November 1984, His Majesty placed RAST under his royal patronage.