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Ham-Fisted: Chap's Radio App Killed Remotely After Posting Bad Review:

Posted: 20 Dec 2016 03:18 AM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/38275


A US ham radio software developer has admitted a support staffer disabled a
customer's copy of its application after he posted a negative review
online. The owners of HRD Software today told The Register they have since
reinstated the user's license, claiming the revenge move was made by an
outside support staffer. Here's what happened: a bloke called Jim Giercyk
in Greenville, South Carolina, US, downloaded and installed an update for
his Ham Radio Deluxe application. Next, the program inexplicably stopped
working, so Giercyk contacted HRD's support team for help. Then, according
to a log of the conversation between Giercyk and the support agent, the
country rock musician was told his copy had been disabled remotely in
response to a negative online review he had posted in September.


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Transatlantic Commemoration Successful:

Posted: 19 Dec 2016 04:01 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/38274


Last week we mentioned the special event to commemorate the 95th
anniversary of the first transatlantic contact between Greenwich,
Connecticut, and Ardrossan, Scotland on Sunday the 11th of December. The
commemorative contact between Greenwich and Ardrossen took place at 1531UTC
with US operator Dave Patton, NN1M and Scotland operator Jason O'Neill,
GM7VSB. The original 1921 message was exchanged successfully.


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Claims WIA in Trouble With ASIC and ACMA Without Foundation:

Posted: 19 Dec 2016 04:01 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/38273


Some members have commented that the Australian Securities and Investment
Commission (ASIC) has issues with the WIA's financial processes and is
investigating the WIA. The WIA President has discussed the matter with ASIC
and referred several queries to the WIA's Auditor for clarification. The
queries were in relation to building depreciation, treatment of
subscriptions in advance, and the independence of the Auditor. The Auditor
subsequently contacted ASIC and has advised that its representations were
fully accepted and no further correspondence is required on the matters
raised. Suggestions have been made that the WIA incurred ASIC fines. To our
knowledge, the WIA has never incurred an ASIC fine or late payment fee.
However, a company known as Amateur Radio Pty Ltd was registered in 1970 in
order to protect the name "Amateur Radio" from possible use by other
organisations. The directors of Amateur Radio Pty Ltd were past WIA
directors and at least one past secretary, but the current WIA directors
were not made aware of its existence. This company had not paid recent
registration fees, but as the name was important to the WIA (being the name
of our hobby and of our journal), the WIA Board made a decision to pay the
late payment fee of several hundred dollars in order to prevent Amateur
Radio Pty Ltd being deregistered.