I knew a guy who got away with it for a while, in fact quite a few people
I've caught over the years,  if you don't have a computer in front of you to
look these people up, you can talk to them and never know it. I usually look
new people up I've never worked before, anyone I've never worked I look up
either at the time or later down the road just to be sure. Most often was
with the group I was with on 10 meters we'd have people with out the right
class of license come up.
----- Original Message -----
From: "shawn klein" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: concerns when transmitting in a hospital


> Oh people have been bootlegging other people's calls
> for almost as long as ham radio has been in existance,
> Can't say I've ever heard of the legitimate holder of
> the call getting in trouble. I think most of these
> guys just pick a likely sounding call out of the air
> anyway, so the holder is often in another state. I
> knew a guy who bootlegged k3npr, always said National
> Public Radio for phonetics, this was in Phoenix on 2
> meters in the late 80's, he was always on the 2 to 10
> link, and wasn't till a year or so later it was
> questioned, I was a new ham then, and old timers
> thought he was legit. This guy was still running his
> mouth, on 11 meters freeband, in the mid 90's.
>