DX station mishears a callsign and the 'Amateur Radio Watch' bot blasts me for operating a band I don't have the hardware to operate on. Anyone else had these "MARGA" clowns accuse you of something you didn't do?
[EDIT] Thanks for the confirmation that this brave warrior with their Proton email should be ignored. Hopefully everyone is getting a good laugh out of this dork. Also helps to see that this isn't the standard in the community. I wasn't about to spend good money and time studying for General to be around this type of fudd.
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As I was about to hit send on my reply I realized I don't want to validate an active email to a bot. So, I figured I'd post an open letter response here.
>"Why is your cancelled callsign [My old callsign] in [DX Station in Indonesia]'s QRZ Log?"
Not certain. But unless someone is out there using my old callsign (doubtful), Occam’s razor suggests that your overzealous automated message is misdirected at a simple human error - an error not performed by the recipient at that. An operator in Indonesia clearly fat-fingered or misheard a callsign while hammering through a fast-paced pile-up—not the license holder you are currently spamming.
Perhaps before you set your bot to loose criteria for unsolicited outreach, you should reconsider how flawed your logic is. A single, unconfirmed log entry, with zero matching records, makes it incredibly premature to assume ill intent from an operator. Frankly, I don’t even possess the hardware required to transmit on 15 meters.
I understand that there are actual rule abusers in ham radio and that this is a self-policing community. But true policing requires responsibility and a basic understanding of evidence. Last I checked, a credible enforcement system assumes innocence until proven guilty, rather than firing off automated accusations based on unverified, third-party database typos.
Hopefully, you will adjust your bot's logic to keep the actual abusers targeted, rather than attempting to intimidate folks who have nothing to do with your claims. I have been considering upgrading to General, but if doing so means joining a community filled with overbearing (Bad language removed for Reddit Community) who prioritize automated harassment over basic logic, I think I'll hold off.
(Bad language removed for Reddit Community),
[My old callsign]