Brian wrote:

Dave Heil wrote in message ...
Brian wrote:

Dave Heil wrote in message ...

Sure, I'd be happy not to use Kim's call on the air. If I hear Kim on
the air, I'll be happy to tune right by. If she calls me, I'm not
required to respond.

I'm sure you'd rather just respond to French out-of-banders on 6M.

How could you be sure of that, Brian?

I can be sure of that because of three of your postings.

1. You posted saying that you worked French amateurs where they have
no 6M authorizations.

Not exactly correct, is it, Brian? I wrote that French amateurs had
called me and that I'd worked them below 50.200.

2. You later stated that you would continue to do so because you have
no responsibility for where bootleg French hams want to operate.

I have no responsibility to ensure that any station I work is entitled
to use the piece of spectrum he occupies. The responsibility for being
where he's supposed to be lies entirely with the individual operating.
How is it that you find the concept difficult?

And 3. You stated that you'd be happy to tune right by a legally
licensed American amateur because your're not required to respond.

Having read and memorized Part 97, can you quote the portion requiring
us to call any station or to respond to a call from another station?

That is how I can be sure.

You had only three things to add up. You still arrived at the wrong
answer.

Did you have a point about Kim's
callsign?

Yes. It is legal and valid, but you show a preference for out of band
Frenchmen.

Kim's call is legal but in poor taste.

Is there anything else?

There is much else. Keeping searching for knowledge.

Dave K8MN