Hello everyone.
Thought you may want to know that one of the guys throwing stones at MARS in his posts on this and another topic (MARS Member Participation) in the MARS forum seems to be either very "confused" or is an outright fraud.
This individual posts under K4FAU, which he identifies as "his friend's call". Unfortunately, K4FAU is the callsign of the Florida Atlantic University ARC. He also identifies himself as an Army Signal Officer who was "stationed in Korea" in 1983 and used to call his folks from there. The only trouble with that is that in another post, he states that he is 34 years old, which would have made him 14 years old when he was "stationed in Korea".
The icing on the cake is that he has alternately identified himself as "Brian" in one post, and as "Sam, KC5LMF, Fort Hood, Texas" in another. I did some research on the callsign KC5LMF, and it belongs to a Ham in Georgia.
Kind of reminds you of all the fake Vietnam Veterans running around, doesn't it? The only consistent thing about this guy seems to be his seemingly irrational dislike of and disrespect for MARS.
I think we should give any further postings by him the time that they deserve.
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