[Xastir] Emergency Locate Popup

[Tom Russo]

Dang, I see what you mean by his QRZ listing being questionable:

NEIL ** ATTENTION ALL STATIONS IN THE AMATEUR RADIO FORCE ** PLEASE TRANSMIT YOUR SIGNALS FROM FINN ROAD IN WEST PARIS ** THIS IS NOT A DRILL ** I HAVE DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY AND HUMANITARIAN CRISIS ALONG OUR NORTHERN BORDER ** PLEASE TRAVEL TO FINN ROAD IN WEST PARIS IMMEDIATELY **

"I have declared a state of emergency."  

Sounds fishy.


Worse:

https://www.qrz.com/db/NB9D

That's one that might be appropriate for reporting to the FCC.

On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 01:12:10PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 01:24:51PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <n1mie at mac.com> flavor, containing:
> > Is there a preference to disable the Emergency Locate Popup? I have a kiosk on which I???d rather not see this popup. In particular right now there is one from a NB9D callsign. Having looked at his QRZ posting, I am in serious doubt about the validity of this "emergency".
> 
> 
> There is no such option.  It's supposed to be one of those things that
> is so important you can't turn it off.
> 
> One should probably contact the station making the false alarm and let 
> them know that people actually pay attention to these things.
> 
> -- 
> Tom Russo    KM5VY
> Tijeras, NM  
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Tom Russo    KM5VY
Tijeras, NM  

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