Good point John. Next time I will take the radios and then ask permission. Not the other way around :)

Doc

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On Jan 14, 2016, at 2:54 PM, John Papay john@papays.com wrote:

Doc, I think the better approach is to take your radio equipment with you, and once you are on board, ask for permission.

If you operate on the ship and make contacts and don't have permission as required, none of your contacts will count. We haven't had any challenges in the VUCC program in recent history but if contested you may have to prove you had permission.

Lots of people operate on grid lines and don't document their operation as required by the VUCC rules. If someone challenges and you can't substantiate you were on the line using one of the methods described in the rules, your contacts could be invalidated. That would be an embarrassment for the operator as well as the station claiming credit.

There is more scrutiny with DXCC. I've worked many DXpeditions that did have their documentation and they simply didn't count. When I went to Rurutu and the Marquesas I had to submit my license and copies of my passport showing when I arrived and when I left. Sometimes you might be asked for airline tickets for the local flights, receipts from your hotel/hut etc.

By the way, our Samsung Microwave quit during the holidays. No display; nothing. We will have them come out to fix it when we get back from Florida in April. Other appliances are working fine!

73, John K8YSE/4 EL98rd

John Papay john@papays.com