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June 6th 04, 06:58 PM
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(Steve
Robeson K4CAP) writes:
Subject: Call Area Etiquette
From:
(Steve Robeson K4CAP)
Date: 06 Jun 2004 13:21:45 GMT
Subject: Call Area Etiquette
From:
PAMNO (N2EY)
Date: 6/5/2004 6:59 PM Central Standard Time
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In article , Dave Heil
writes:
We don't know that T5/N0IMD existed.
I think it did.
Why? Because he "said so"...?!?!
That's one reason. Lacking any proof to the contrary, I'm not going to call
someone a liar.
No one seems to have worked it. It doesn't show up in packet
cluster records. It doesn't show up in DXCC applications. You must
have cancelled everything through Google.
Maybe.
Or consider this:
Suppose you and I found ourselves in a place with no functioning government.
Suppose we had radio sets capable of operation on amateur frequencies. Say
on 2 meters, or 440, or 6 meters, or whatever.
Suppose whatever authority existed there at the time said it was OK for us
to use the radio sets.
Could we not work each other and use our stateside callsigns?
Could we not keep logbooks and exchange QSL cards?
Sure you can...ie: Antarctica
Well, there you have it. It could have happened, and all of the above-named
conditions would have been met.
However even there there are international agreements on who can grant
what authority, to whom, and under what circumstances.
Of course. I didn't say such operation would be 100% in agreement with
international requirements, just that it could happen.
Brain was allegedly in a military unit under United Nations auspices,
and
it seems he did NOTHING to get the PROPER authorizations to do what he
CLAIMED to do.
Maybe. But that has no bearing on whether the alleged /T5 operation took place,
whether logbooks existed, and whether QSLs were exchanged.
Remember that all it would take to meet all of these conditions would be one
QSO in a ham band using stateside calls and portable designation.
He won't even provide us with the callsign of ONE station he "worked"
while in Somalia.
Of course not. Same goes for bands/modes/antennas/rigs used. But the lack of
detail doesn't mean the alleged operation didn't happen.
The lack of detail is a different issue completely.
No proof = Didn't happen.
Not at all.
No proof = Reasonable doubt.
Nothing more or less.
73 de Jim, N2EY
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