[CQ-Contest] Travelling for Contests or Dxpeditions

[Mike Reublin]

If they knew what they were actually looking at, they would know that you don't have to remove the lens from an SLR to look thru it. I had a viewfinder camera they asked me to take the lens cap off of so they could look thru it.

73, Mike NF4L

On Sep 23, 2014, at 4:18 PM, Zack Widup <w9sz.zack at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe "light up" is not the correct terminology. I think if they see the
> device powers up, they assume it isn't full of something other than the
> expected innards.
> 
> Whenever I've taken my digial SLR through these checkpoints they want to
> take the lens off and look through it. I guess that tells them that the
> lens isn't full of explosives, cocaine or what-have-you.
> 
> I was just looking at a website somewhere that showed some of the (failed)
> attempts of people to smuggle drugs into or out of the country. One photo
> even showed hollowed-out bolts that contained cocaine. Amazing what effort
> some people will go through.
> 
> 73, Zack W9SZ
>