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G4EBT > SEARCH 05.07.04 18:43l 43 Lines 1395 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: Callbooks and QTH's.
Path: ON0AR<ON0AR<GB7FCR
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From: G4EBT@GB7FCR.#16.GBR.EU
To : SEARCH@WW
My chum Andy, GM7HUD wrote:-
> The case of the callbook is different. If you intend to interact with
> UK hams then a reasonably up to date callbook is needed.
Or just add the Buckmaster worldwide callbook server to your internet
favourites: http://hamcall.net/cgi-bin/do_hamcallexe
(Or find it in a few milliseconds via google, quicker than using a CD
rom).
An interesting (maybe even worrying to the paranoid!), feature on
Buckmaster is that if you type in a callsign it will tell you how
many times it's been looked up. Who are all those people who have
looked me up when I haven't had an RF QSO in yonks on any band?
Spooky! :-O
Of course, the UK callbook is becoming more and more limited with
so many amateurs haviong their entry marked "particulars withheld
at licensees request".
Fine, if that's their wish, but you have to laugh when you get people
on here who are strongly in favour of compusory ID Cards saying: "Only
people who have something to hide are against them", yet are themselves
"particulars withheld" in the callbook and ex dir in the 'phone book.
Yes, it's true folks - you couldn't make it up.
73 - David, G4EBT @ GB7FCR
Eddystone User Group Member
G-QRP Club Member No: 1339
QTH: Cottingham, East Yorkshire.
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