Seem like much to do about nothing.
How about "stroke 7" or "slant 7"?
If I didn't need to get more QSLs with the call, I would use N7WS/60 this year,
for my sixtieth year in ham radio.
Here's what the FCC thinks about the subject:
"In addition to the special event call sign system, any amateur station,
including a special event station, may include with its assigned call sign one
or more indicators (example "W1AW/national convention"). Each indicator must be
separated from the assigned call sign by a slant ("/") or any suitable word that
denotes the slant mark ("portable," "stroke," etc.). If the indicator is
self-assigned, it must be included before, after, or both before and after, the
assigned call sign (example "KP2/W1AW/contest"). No self-assigned indicator may
conflict with any other indicator specified by the FCC Rules (such as "AA",
"AG", "AE" or "KT") or with any prefix assigned to another country (such as
"DL", "F", "G" or "VE")."
Wes N7WS/60
On 7/2/2018 11:19 AM, ANDY DURBIN wrote:
"/QRP often, but not always, indicates a field operation, and they're sort of fun to
work, at least for me."
And sometimes it means someone running 5 W to a 6 ele Yagi at 75 ft! That
station has far higher ERP that I do running 100 W with my modest antennas.
If I was portable in UK, where had my first licence, my call was g3wyc/p. US operators
have completely butchered and obfuscated the meaning of portable by verbalizing k3wyc/7
as "k3wyc portable 7". The /7 suffix does not mean I am portable. It just means
I'm operating in region 7 and I'm saying so because it is required for the contest in
which I'm operating.
If you want special attention because you are portable why not indicate
portable rather than QRP?
73,
Andy k3wyc
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