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echo: ham_tech
to: JOE DELAHAYE
from: ROY WITT
date: 1998-01-15 08:14:00
subject: Jammer hunting - th

Hello Joe.
13 Jan 98 13:49, Joe Delahaye wrote to Roy Witt:
 ->> Reminds me of the time an Amateur Extra Class was chastizing a KAx3
 ->> call sign american ham for being in the Advanced portion of
 ->> 20meters.  The Extra figured the 2x3 was a Tech or General, when
 ->> the 2x3 was as much AEC as he was.
 JD>
 JD> Something to the effect that looks are deceiving eh ?
Something to do with the incentive licensing structure.  When I was first 
licensed with KB6PI, I had people chasing me all over the bands, thinking I 
was on Baker Island.  KB6 was the prefix for that island before the FCC 
redesigned all this..
 ->> I believe you're right on that, Joe.  I've heard Canadians talking
 ->> there and it peeved me because I couldn't legally talk to them...
 JD>
 JD> There is a movement afoot, I think to coordinate our (voluntary) band
 JD> plan with your (compulsoray) band plan.  Not sure if or when it will
 JD> happen.
Good, there's not much CW activity there anyway.
... Let's call it the James Kirk Memorial Brothel -- Scotty
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