In article , Robert Casey
writes:

No surprise there Mike. No calls, no decency, no license. Access available
to anyone that can lie their way in. Yep....what a system.


And someone can obtain a ham radio rig and go on the air with a bootleg
call.
Same difference.

Not really!

First off, once you get beyond the HT or magmount-on-the-filing-cabinet stage,
it's a lot more trouble to set up a ham station.

Second (and this is the biggie) the only way for a bootlegger to avoid lots of
negative attention from other hams is to act legitimate.

73 de Jim, N2EY