Sadly it is also common to hear European stations calling US stations above
7.200 and being worked without question.
73
Stewart GM4AFF
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> On 7 May 2015, at 13:09, Albert Crespo <f5vhj@orange.fr> wrote:
>
> Many USA stations call me below 7150. They call constantly until I tell them
> they are out of the band and then they usually stop. Sometimes this happens
> because of the useage of Internet spotting and just using the mouse to move
> the transmitting frequency. Whatever, it is a violation of the USA's license.
> I find this practice happening more and more. It is clearly cheating if the
> QSO is claimed for the score . The burden is not on the non USA station to
> know the frequency allocation of the USA station license.
> The software should be progrmmed to catch this nonsense because the logs of
> both stations should reflect the transmitting frequency.
> If the USA station's log does not reflect the correct transmitting frequency,
> then the log should be considered a check log.
> In this age of ham radio software being free or at a very low cost, there is
> no reasonable excuse for not indicating the transmit frequency.
> The few hand written logs that are submitted should require the
> transmitting frequency. Anybody submitting a hand written log and cheats
> doing so, well that person is just a nutter.
> If the software can catch this nonsense, and if it is a patten and not just
> a once or twice mistake, then the log should be DQed.
> 73, Albert, TO5A, 6W1RY, NH7A, etc.
>
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