[KYHAM] Re: Right to Know?

[Jeffrey R Lehman, KC8QCH]

> While buying some connectors etc. for a project today, I
> asked the local RS folks if they ever asked to see an
> amateur radio license before they sold someone one of the
> Amateur Radio transceivers that they sell.  

Actually I have been asked before if I had a license. But they didn't ask
to see it. I showed them anyway when they asked about it though. Now They
know me at the store that I go reguarly to (by name, isn't that scary ;)
and they don't have a problem with me buying things. (I've bought a
number of radios from them.)

At another local store they were pretty slick about asking me. The Clerk
angaged me in conversation abou t Amateur Radio and askedme where I have
taken my test and gotten my license through. i told them and he asked me
what my call was and again I told him. Turns out, though that the clerk
was an amateur too so we had shop talk. Now this doesn;t always happen,
but at least it's nice to know that you can go and ask questions and they
will actually know the answer. (most of the time I know more then the
clerks and get strange looks when I try to tell them what I am doing ;)

Again this are just a couple of local examples and doesn't happen
everywhere. But I thought I would throw in my 2 cents. :)

   73's,
       Jeff

Jeffrey R. Lehman, KC8QCH
Secretary, OH-KY-IN REACT, Inc.
E-Mail: KC8QCH@juno.com; AIM: kc8qch; ICQ: 116327161
Web: http://www.angelfire.com/oh3/ohkyinreact, http://www.qsl.net/kc8qch
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