Rather superfluous now that the call sign no longer identifies the FCC engineering district of the home station.
That was one of the all-time bad moves by the FCC, IMHO, but it was popular among Hams who moved out of the district but couldn't bear to give up their call sign. 73, Ron AC7AC (ex, W6QAS, ex AC6Y, both random call assignments by the FCC. I put my call where my mouth was when I moved to Oregon and let the FCC computer assign me a random 7 area call and got AC7AC. It's longer but it's a neat call.) -----Original Message----- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bill Frantz Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 3:56 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] 20 meter CW When I am in New Hampshire I sign AE6JV/1 on PSK although it isn't required. Cheers - Bill, AE6JV/1 On 7/2/13 at 3:09 PM, ke6...@gmail.com (Stephen Selberg) wrote: > Christian. The weird suffix is because I'm at the in-laws house in Nevada. > My home QTH is in california. I was off the air until for some years > up until April 2012. Are people still using /call area when out of > their home call area? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | QRP: So you can talk about | Periwinkle (408)356-8506 | the ones that got away. | 16345 Englewood Ave www.pwpconsult.com | | Los Gatos, CA 95032 ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html