"Alun" wrote

Not that I would want to work
Dan, who is on record as saying
that all phone ops are lids..

You must be mistaken. I just checked my log and I've worked W4NTI
dozens of times over the past few years. Nearly half of the Q's were on
SSB (I think that mode qualifies as "phone".) Certainly Dan wouldn't
work people he considers "lids".

Good luck on this one now!

73, de Hans, K0HB/4ID