Some time in September/October
I have sent back his QSL-Card with the remark 'Sorry, that was a Pirate'
AB5GH's QSL showed a QSO 9.5.01
20m SSB at 05:22 |
e-mail from AB5AG to HB9AGH
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 06:09:03 EDT:
Sir,
You had sent back my QSL card for station AB5GH. You had stated
you were QRV at the time I stated on the card. I would like to ask
that you search your
log for my callsign.
It also offends me that you think I am a pirate, sir. I have been
licensed
for 11 years and I have sent you proof. I would not have sent
you a card if
I did not hear proof that I worked your station. Your operator
may have for
got to write it down. I remember the KX2A station that was in
from of my
call. It could have been I was off on time by an hour.
Thanks for your time,
Ron -AB5GH |
my answer HB9AGH to AB5GH
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:09:14 +020:
Hi Ron,
There is no AB5GH in whole log.
Please give me date, time, band and mode of your QSO and you will hear
from me.
73, Ambrose - hb9agh |
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e-mail from AB5GH to HB9AGH Fri,
26 Oct 2001 06:09:03 EDT:
| Ambrose,
I done some research on my callsign from your webpage. What I
found was
this:
There is no AB5GH in the log, but there is an AB5G and it on 20M.
The call
date/utc is 9 May 01 at 0522 hours. I may have been off an hour
or two as
does usually happen on my logging. I feel that the operator may
have kept
offf my last letter, so instead of logging AB5GH he or she logged AB5G
by
accident thereby causing and unknown callsign and a possible pirate
situation.
Thanks again,
Ron AB5GH |
my answer HB9AGH to AB5AG
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:57:06 +0200
Hi Run
- Agalega was not QRV on 9.5.01 from 04:49-19:15 on 20m SSB
- We worked AB5G on 12.5.01 but completly different time
Unfortunatly nearly every time when we went QRT on a band some pirates
tried to continue in the same manner as we did, to the regret of all
hams.
Sorry to tell you this but it's true, even worse in cw and RTTY!
73, Ambrose |
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e-mail from AB5GH to HB9AGH
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 08:52:38 EDT
| hello again,
Maybe it was a pirate, but I sure needed the island and the operator
I talked
to had a german accent.
there have been times during my contacts with dx stations my call has
been
repeated wrong, and before I can correct, the operator just moves on.
I am
sorry also to tell you this, but I think that is what happened here.
The
operator was worried more about speed than confirming the contact.
So
operator mistake has caused me not to be able to obtain a card from
your dx
trip. I guess technicalities will always prevail.
Ron |
my answer HB9AGH to AB5GH
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:57:45 +0200
Sorry Ron (AB5GH), but I don't confirm contacts which you have made
with
pirates. Our operators always tried to copy the calls correctly even
in
the bigest pileup.
73, Ambrose |
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e-mail from AB5GH to HB9AGH
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:21:22 EDT
| Ambrose,
I regret saying this and its very unprofessional to say, but on your
next
dxpedition, I will most certainly will be one of the stations that
will not
contact your operation.
Too many excuses not to issue a card for a simple mistake made by one
of your
operators. Never have heard of a pirate dxpedition. And
please dont use the
word pirate, I am not a pirate either.
Sincerely,
Ron - AB5GH |
Of course, I do not react on this! Shame on you, Ron |