Hi Tom,
I'm sure the crooks have sneaky ways around that problem that you or I wouldn't
know about. But it occurs to me that you could simply log into the packet with
a fake call sign.
73 Steve K0SR
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tom Osborne [mailto:w7why@verizon.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 08:31 PM
>To: 'CQ-Contest'
>Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] cheating with packet
>
>Hi Steve et al
>
>If you connect to packet, doesn't it show who you are when you are
>connected?
>
>When I connect, it says 'Hi' to me as it knows who I am. 73
>
>Tom W7WHY
>
>
>>If I jump from my run frequency over to one of the stations in my band map
>> >and then back again, AND someone just spotted the guy, how is a piece of
>> >software going to know I'm NOT using Packet?
>>
>> 73 Steve K0SR
>>
>
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