[SEDXC] [QSL-Net] Confirming amateur status

[Ed Tanton]

Hylton,

There are two good sources of callsign-lookups, and both mention the 
email address (when they have it on file):

1) http://www.eham.net/

2) http://www.qrz.com/index.html

They do not provide a way to search for email address connections to 
callsigns that I could find-although I did not work very hard looking for it.

But instead I used an ordinary Google 
http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&btnG=Google+Search search on YOUR 
email address and found two references that contained your callsign. 
But that was because you INCLUDE it in your email address Nickname in 
parenthesis. I also did mine, and ignoring the ACTUAL email address 
in the results (e.g. NOT counting the "n4xy" part of my email 
address, and only looking for "n4xy" in the text results) there were 
quite a few.

However, I suspect using this reverse search (from email address TO 
callsign) through Google is not going to be a very reliable 
methodology; but rather will be dependent on what the (email) 
addressee has been up to in ham radio; and will thereby determine 
whether his/her email address will be found in the Google results.

The Google-search approach IS better than nothing, and meanwhile, I'm 
going to forward this email to a couple of other Reflectors where 
there are a number of hams who are very active with QSLs and QSLing. 
Perhaps some of them will have a better suggestion.

Please let me know what you find out.

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At 12:30 AM 2/2/2007, you wrote:

>Whilst I have received from the fellow list admins a resource to use 
>to check up on call signs, I would like to know from others the 
>procedure tey follow to get an email address' ham call sign?
>
>Do you send an email from your own private account to the person 
>requesting subscription asking for their amateur call or do you 
>approve but moderate for a while?
>
>I just approved someone without checking the amateur call status as 
>I did not know how to check it as none was evident in the email address.
>
>Tnx and 73 de ZR1HPC
>Hylton
>[ham-siftware-owner]

>///snip

73  Ed Tanton N4XY <n4xy at earthlink.net>

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