Walt Davidson wrote:
Chris wrote:

Just for the record, everyone on Echolink (links and individuals
alike) have been validated by one of the Echolink validation team. I'm
not sure that it is really necessary, but it happens. So, like it or
not, there's very little chance of a non-licenced person using
Echolink.

How can you possibly do that? The Echolink validation team, as you
call them, do not have privileged access to licensing records ... and
we are talking about worldwide records, not just the UK. If someone
appeared under a callsign randomly selected from the callbook, or even
just made up an unallocated M3 callsign and came on Echolink, how
would you know he wasn't a pirate?


Nowt to do with me, Walt. I've nothing to do with the Echolink
validation team. You'd better ask them that. I know, however, that
newly licenced amateurs have to send off a scan of their licence to
one of that team.


How do you know my licence hasn't expired?


If you give a real callsign, and sound like a real amateur, then I
don't really care.

I wish the authorities monitored on-air, and checked rather more than
they do, but AFAIAC it is not my (or any amateur's) job.

73,
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Chris