Which of course makes /M ["I'm on wheels"] and /MM ["I'm afloat"]
non-compliant, all the M's belong to the UK. Attention pilots: /AM
["I'm aloft"] is also non-compliant since AM belongs to Spain. /R ["I'm
a repeater], /B ["I'm a beacon"], and /PM ["I'm walkin and talkin"] are
too, all the R's are Russian, the B's Chinese, and PM belongs to
Indonesia. /P is probably compliant since the P's are split between
multiple countries and always have a second number/letter. No prefixes
start with Q so /QRP is compliant. So is /QSD ["I can't send for
beans"]. Interesting that the SOTA folk never [almost] use /QRP or
/<anything>. I guess the assumption is that if you've carried your
station up a mountain and call CQ SOTA, odds are high you're in the
field and likely did not drag a generator along. I don't believe anyone
has done time in the "Gated Community for the Ethically Challenged" for
violations of this however.
Personally, I don't care what indicators you use as long as I can find
your call in there somewhere.
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
On 7/2/2018 12:49 PM, Wes Stewart wrote:
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
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