OPERATING : Working a Station with a Bogus Call Sign

OPERATING : Working a Station with a Bogus Call Sign

Last night on 40m CW, I worked WB5RY. I’m pretty sure this was the call he gave me because he repeated it several times during the contact. He gave his name as Bill and his location as Fayetteville, GA.

When the call didn’t show up on QRZ.Com, I got a little suspicious. Now, I know that not everyone shows up on QRZ.Com, as they ban folks every once in a while. So, I looked up the callsign in the FCC ULS database. The database says that WB5RY was last issued on 11/14/2006 to a Richard Ybarra and was cancelled on 2/9/2007.

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TRAINING : Electrical and RF Safety

TRAINING : Electrical and RF Safety

RF safety principles, rules and guidelines, routine station evaluation

If you learn nothing else from this manual, I hope that you learn to be safe when setting up your station, building antennas, or operating a radio. It’s unfortunate, but hams every year lose their lives in accidents that could have been prevented. In this chapter, we will cover RF safety and electrical safety.

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