Actually Russian Antarctic stations us a R1 prefix, as do Franz Josef
Land and Malyj Vysotskij. I think some contest stations in Russia
itself also use the R without a second alpha character.
I doubt that anyone would mistake a /M mobile station as being in the
UK or a /B beacon in China.
The normal convention for operation in another country has that
country's prefix preceding rather than following the station's call
sign, although that isn't followed 100 percent.
73, Bob N7XY
On Nov 27, 2007, at 6:50 PM, Phil Kane wrote:
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:11:18 -0800, Fred Jensen wrote:
So all VHF/UHF repeaters that identify "W6XXX/R," and there are
a lot of them, are in violation of the rule since "RAA-RZZ" is
assigned to Russia?
This has been kicking around for quite a while. At one time
FCC Rules required adding "/R" or "/RPT" to a repeater call
after it stopped issuing "WR" for repeater stations. The
"out"is that "R" alone is not the way that Russia assigns call
signs - they use "R" followed by an alpha. It's a "don't ask,
don't tell" situation. I do advise my ham clients to use
"/RPT" to be safe.
--
73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402
_______________________________________________
Elecraft mailing list
Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
You must be a subscriber to post to the list.
Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.):
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm
Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
_______________________________________________
Elecraft mailing list
Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
You must be a subscriber to post to the list.
Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.):
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm
Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
