According to the rules as published in Oct. 1997 QST (can there be a
better source?) the other station's callsign is not part of the required
exchange; I quoth: ``4) Exchange: A consecutive serial number, precedence
(<SNIP>), your call sign, check (<SNIP>) and your ARRL/RAC section.''
There is no mention of the other's callsign.
I believe that the example that follows is merely to display a typical
contact, which likely would (but not necessarily MUST) include the
calling station's call sign, especially given the circumstances
indicated. Here, WJ1U would have no other way to indicate to whom he was
responding other than preceding the exchange with his call sign.
WJ1U pretty much knows his own call sign, and that W1AW is in contact
with him. It is optional, then, for W1AW to include WJ1U in the exchange.
Comments?
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