On 17 Aug 2004 20:06:07 GMT, Allodoxaphobia hath writ:
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:54:27 GMT, Jimmie hath writ:

"J999w" wrote in message
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A ham callsign?

Online info is a good thing, saves you the effort of giving out your
address if you want to get a QSL from the bloke you're working.

Why would you want to block your info ... something to hide???

Sorry about any confusion because of user ID but I was using my daughters
computer. Thought I had it set up to give my name. Nothing to hide. Read
what you snipped. I was just trying to figure out why I could not get this
information on some else who says he has been a ham for a while. I plugged
in his call sign in google and did not get the usuall information back from
a callsign data base. First time this has happened to me.

Was I talking to someone with a bogus call.
Question mark?

--snip--

Elsewise, just entering the callsign in Google will only reflect how
"busy" the op is on the web, in usenet, .... and/or in contests.
(I find my call often in contest logs that folks feel a need to post
on web sites....) I'm sure there are some grizzled olde (active)
op's that have never owned or used a computer (not even a Commodore 64),
and whose existance could not be proven by Google. (Google usually
does not index the pages given up by other "look-up" engines such as
QRZ.COM and BUCK.COM.)

So, as an experiment, I entered into Google the callsign my dad
(The First W3DHJ) last held before he became a SK nearly 6 years ago.
He was semi-active on packet radio about 5 years before his death.
But, AFAIK, he was never on the internet.
The only hit I got was deep down in the "available callsigns' lists"
hosted at
http://sattrackhouston.com/vanity.htm

So, even at that, I guess you'd call that a "non-specific hit" -- since
it was not about him, but rather about an amateur callsign he once held.

73
Jonesy
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