borrowed calls

[Zack Widup]

>
>	With the permission of the call owner anyone can use any call 
>        from any location.  (at least in the U.S.A... )  [KY1H]
>
>So does this mean that when I hear a rare DX station on I can work
>it several times using the calls of any of my friends who have told 
>me that they need to work this country and have given me permission
>to work it for them?
>
>I realize that this may not be allowed under the DXCC rules, but not
>all DXers send their cards to ARRL.   I also realize that the above
>happens now, but I never thought it was ethical.
>
>Heck, I should be at #1 Honor Roll pretty soon then!
>
>Derek
>
>
DXCC rules section I, # 10: "All contacts must be made by the same 
station licensee. However, contacts may have been made under different 
call signs in the same country if the licensee for all was the same. That 
is, you may simultaneously feed one DXCC from several call signs held, as 
long as the provisions of Rule 9 are met."

So it is not illegal to use someone else's station to work a country as 
long as you have his permission to use your own call AND YOU ARE THE 
OPERATOR!

Many CONTESTS have in the rules that the operators in a multi-op contest 
do not work stations under their own callsigns, once they have operated 
under the multi-op callsign.

Beyond that, your practices are left to your own ethics.  I myself never 
felt I'd have any pride in getting something I cheated to get.

					73, Zack W9SZ