It would seem that the commonly used /m and /mm suffixes are not legal. M and MM callsigns are being assigned by England and Scotland. If one looks at the international prefux list, there seems to be no combination of letters that are not assigned to some country.
My logging program assigns /M calls to England and /MM to Scotland! Of course to confuse things even more, I believe some countries require the portable location to be assigned before one's call, e.g. GM/W8JI.. Secondary indicators go after the call. This can lead to calls like MM/W8JI/M. Ain't it great . 73 de Brian/K3KO Tom W8JI wrote: >>QRP is not part of any call sign! If you are QRP and >>like a QSO with me don´t ever use forexample K0PP/QRP. >>I simply will NOT answer, I do not answer bogus call >>signs. >>Also do not call me with "two letters" your "suffix" or >>whatever >>but your given legal call sign, I simply never ever >>answer things like that. >> >> > >Not so in the USA. We only have to ID at least once every >ten minutes during a series of transmissions, when we are >done transmitting, or within ten minutes of starting >transmissions. > >(a) Each amateur station, except a space station or >telecommand station, must transmit its assigned call sign on >its transmitting channel at the end of each communication, >and at least every 10 minutes during a communication, for >the purpose of clearly making the source of the >transmissions from the station known to those receiving the >transmissions. No station may transmit unidentified >communications or signals, or transmit as the station call >sign, any call sign not authorized to the station. > > >We can legally assign our own designators, like /QRP: > >(c) One or more indicators may be included with the call >sign. Each indicator must be separated from the call sign by >the slant mark (/) or by any suitable word that denotes the >slant mark. If an indicator is self-assigned, it must be >included before, after, or both before and after, the call >sign. No self-assigned indicator may conflict with any other >indicator specified by the FCC Rules or with any prefix >assigned to another country. > > > >So we can say W8JI/QRP legally here so long (not that you >will ever hear me do that because I don't like it either) as >"QRP" does not conflict with any other country assignment or >any assigned FCC indicator. > >You might choose not to answer, but the station signing /QRP >is breaking no laws. > >73 Tom > >______________________________________________________________ >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 > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2869 - Release Date: 05/12/10 >02:26:00 > > > ______________________________________________________________ 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
