{"id":147,"date":"2023-05-13T23:39:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T12:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vk3xem.net\/?p=147"},"modified":"2023-05-13T23:39:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T12:39:02","slug":"ballarat-amateur-radio-group-encouraging-enabling-and-protecting-prirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vk3xem.net\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Ballarat Amateur Radio Group encouraging, enabling and PROTECTING PRIRATES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Ballarat Amateur Radio Group has an ongoing history of encouraging, enabling and protecting PIRATES on the Amateur bands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today a PIRATE was repetitively asking for a radio check on VK3RBU without a callsign.  Eventually he gave the callsign VK3JPM stating that he was in Central Ballarat.  Comparing the ACMA Database with the now removed FAKE QRZ database confirmed a discrepancy.  Further investigation verified the real licensee was infact on the ACMA database by contacting Amateurs that know him personally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further enquiries were made on the Ballarat Amateur Radio Group&#8217;s Facebook page which was challenged why I was making such enquiries, then the post was removed and I was blocked from the group.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PROTECTING PIRATES IS NOT THE ON AND NEEDS TO BE CALLED OUT!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"424\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/vk3xem.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-149\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ballarat Amateur Radio Group has an ongoing history of encouraging, enabling and protecting PIRATES on the Amateur bands. Today a PIRATE was repetitively asking for a radio check on VK3RBU without a callsign. Eventually he gave the callsign VK3JPM stating that he was in Central Ballarat. Comparing the ACMA Database with the now removed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vk3xem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vk3xem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vk3xem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vk3xem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vk3xem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vk3xem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/www.vk3xem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vk3xem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vk3xem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vk3xem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}