On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:31:38 +0100 (BST), Baal
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>Ultima Thule wrote in alt.fan.prettyboy on Wednesday 19 August 2009 12:48
>in Message-ID: <3cnn85lthvb3icmdp4vvs3vp5d3vji2vj2@4ax.com>:
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>> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:55:04 +0100 (BST), Baal
>> <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote:
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>>>carrabarra wrote in alt.support.boy-lovers on Tuesday 18 August 2009
>>>23:11 in Message-ID: <7GFim.12645$ze1.10312@news-server.bigpond.net.au>:
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>>>[snip]
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>>>> He's a ham radio operator ID VK5ZKL."
>>>>
>>>> i checked the data base, that call sign does not exist.
>>>
>>> I checked it as well. No such callsign. Trust the b00b to fuck it up,
>>> eh?
>>>
>>> I mean, if he lies about such easily verifiable stuff, you have to wonder
>>> about the rest of it, eh?
>>
>> What "data base" might you have checked it in?
>
>The Register of Radiocommunications Licenses, maintained by the Australian
>Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), the Australian governing body
>reponsible for the issuance of amateur radio licenses.
>
>According to the ACMA website, the database is an official document:
>
> The Register has been prepared in accordance with Part 3.5 of the
> Radiocommunications Act 1992. The contents of the Register are set
> out in the Radiocommunications (Register of Radiocommunication
> Licences) Determination No. 1 of 1997.
>
>http://web.acma.gov.au/pls/radcom/register_search.main_page
>
>This is the /official/ registry of amateur radio licenses, compiled under
>the authority of the Radiocommunications Act, 1992; it does NOT include
>VK5ZKL.
>
>The page you mentioned QRZ.COM, is an /unofficial/ privately-maintained
>database on amateur radio callsign holders. The callsign info you quote
>was last updated June 21st, 1999, more than 10 years ago now.
>
>> Perhaps you didn't check the Australian one.
>
>See above.
>
>> There seems no problem whatsoever with it.
>
>Except that it was last updated June 21st, 1999. Just a _little_ out of
>date. :-)
>
A long way from it didn't exist.
Surely the point is Wonderer signed off with it in ASBL discussions,
used alfjfrd as his email user name and used the call sign as his nym
in said discussions not whether he has renewed his amateur license.
> AUSTRALIA
>
> VK5ZKL
>
> ALFRED J FORD
>
> 15 IFOULD ROAD
>
> ELIZABETH PARK, SA 5113,
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> AUSTRALIA
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> Lookups: 25
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> Click for less...
> QRZ Record: 1006972
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> Lookups: 25 (25) Mailing Label...
> Last Update: 1999-06-21 22:48:08
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>> QRZ.COM Callsign Database
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>>
>> http://www.qrz.com/index.html
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