[CQ-Contest] License

[kr2q at optimum.net]

RX9TX said,
Well,  If  I  come  to  the USA and operate someone's station with the
licence  owner  sitting  in  the  chair  next to me and supervising my
operation  I  still  do  not  need  "something in writing" to prove my
operation  was  legitimate.  It's the licence holder responsibilities,
not mine.


Well, my information may be stale, but it was my impression that if your [DX] country does not
have a reciprocal licensing agreement here (and maybe that you have received permission to
operate "here"), that the "guest op" (whether a ham or not) may only work other stations
with whom the USA has a 3rd party agreement (if the control op is present)...which is not
all that many countries....certainly not enough to blindly operate a "DX contest."

Does anyone know if this has changed?

Anyhow your point about "who is responsible" it is may be correct.  But either way, the
contest operation would not be legitimate if you worked any DX stations that do not have
a 3rd party agreement with the USA (unless, of course, my information is indeed stale, and
therefore no longer valid).

de Doug KR2Q