Yuri,
Actually, I don't care if he's in another county or country, I don't care
if he's running 9 gazillion watts, and I don't care if it's him or not.
I am not being asked to confirm any of that stuff. Something came out of
my receiver -- a call sign, a report, maybe a location, and that signal
was readable at my QTH, on a given frequency that I KNOW, and at a time
that I KNOW. That's the part I'm confirming.
The other guy has to confirm to himself, or to some awards authority,
the other stuff. NOT ME.
Thanks for responding.
73
Dale K5MM
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At 07:47 PM 3/3/98 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 98-03-03 18:57:26 EST, K5MM writes:
>
><< It is surprising to me that an operator has the audacity to ask the DX
> station to confirm something that he cannot confirm with any certainty.
> That is something like asking the DX station to confirm that it's 35
> degrees celsius outside my home and I've got my air conditioner running
> here in the shack, or asking him to log my call sign down as WA5xxx/ILMK
> during our QSO. (ILMK is short-hand for 'I Love My Kids'. I don't think
>so.>>
>
>
>... or that the call sign he uses is his, and not bootlegged, or he is not in
>another country/county, or it is really him and not his friend, or is
>"illegal" by running "Iampedusa 300W".
>
>I guess we need Clinton lawyer next to us when we operate, or put the
>microphone next to the engine, or transmit live video on the internet at the
>same time, or....
> Just put the darn / whatever the other station has on his card and let him
>and his conscience be the judge.
>
>Yuri, K3BU/m, VE3BMV/1
>
>
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