[amsat-bb] Roving questions

[Bruce]

Remember that any grid boundary can be questioned by the ARRL. Yes, a very good idea to use your smartphone and an app that gives lat/long and take a screen shot.  If you have a standalone gps, take a picture. Just a CYA.  As srated, AMSAT is an honor system and in the 20+ years I have been doing awards I never had to question someone about a contact.  I have asked for some logs for field day but that is a different animal. 

73...bruce

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On Jul 4, 2018, at 12:52 PM, Bryan KL7CN <bryan at kl7cn.net> wrote:

As Paul says, it's on the honor system. However, it is not a bad protocol to take a picture of yourself or your location with the GPS location-stamping enabled in your phone camera. There was a time when I went to a relatively exotic location on a cruise ship and operated from the land ashore of the boat. A picture settled arguments between the suspicious and the pedantic for Satellite DXCC credit for that operation.

-- bag

Bryan KL7CN/W6
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> On Jul 4, 2018, at 09:42, Paul Stoetzer <n8hm at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> Bob,
> 
> Documentation is only required if you operate from a grid line or corner.
> Otherwise, it's all on the honor system.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Paul, N8HM
> 
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 11:42 AM, wa7dxz via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
> wrote:
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>> 
>> 
>> I plan to go to DM 54 soon, a semi rare grid for satellites
>> How do I prove I was there?Take a picture of me at some site in the grid,
>> or, if I tell amsat I am going there, they believe me?BobWa7dxzDm33
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