Hello Tom:
Thanks very much for the response on this "call sign" issue from a
European point of view. When Jim asked the original question which
I responded to, his querry was in effect "Am I REQUIRED to log that
/QRP -- or whateve appendage", to which I responded NO, he is NOT
required to log that to conclude a legitimate QSO.
A different issue is "MAY he log that appendage"....and that answer
to that question would no doubt be YES -- he MAY indeed include it
in his log, if he so desires.
In the USA, our FCC rules do not require it, but the governing
authority is quite liberal on this issue and thus they do not care
much, one way or the other, if hams choose to send that appendage,
irrespective of what the International Law requires or prevents.
It's not a big deal over here, but whe Jim asked the question about
a REQUIREMENT for log such information, that swayed the response toward
the NO answer.
In the USA, our governing authority, the FCC, does not require us to
sign /m or even /different call sign district. In years past, I
would have been required to sign my own call sign as K5MM/7 since
I now live in the 7th call sign district. That /7 is no longer
a requirement country-wide, although many fellows choose to do so,
to indicate a regional location so that the responding station will
have a better sense of where to point a beam antenna.
Oh well.....onward. Thanks again for your very thorough reply!!
73
Dale K7MM
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> Jim:
> The correct response to your last sentence.....in two
> words.... is HELL NO.
>Hi Dale,
>I can remeber some years ago, there was an article in the german CQ-DL
>magazine publishing a note from the german telecommunication authority.
>According to them everything which is connected to the "main" callsign by
>using a stroke ( / ) is an official part of the callsign (by international
>telecommunications laws for
>callsign building of the ITU). Additions to the (HAM) callsign
>could be ONLY (by international-ITU laws/rules) a "regional" addition (like
>/4, /KH1 or DL/, etc.) or status
>additions like (/p, /A, /m, /am, /mm, etc.), sometimes an addition indicate a
>second operator/etc. (like the VU7WCY/CVP etc., meaing VU2CVP operating
>VU7WCY, or "stroke second OP" for
>newly licenced (or upgraded: /AG, /T, etc. in the US) OPs while waiting for
>their own callsign (I think that is possible in OE, and ??),
>In Germany we have the rule that if I operate the station of (the private
>licencee) DL1AAA I have (!!) to sign DL1AAA/DL8AAM
>(!!) rather long but a must,
>the only exception is while operation in an internataional contest. (So a
>group of OPs could operate under one private OP callsign of
>somebody else, but ONLY in an INTERNATIONAL contest)
>Any Q-Code/etc. are no integral part of any
>callsign-building and are illegal, they suggest an addition indicating a QRP
>operation by using e.g. DL8AAM-QRP, etc.
>but / is illegal according to international treaties/rules about
>callsign-building. QRP additions are only a "private" idea of
>the HAM community and no official intergovermental "style".
>
>When we celebrate our 60th year of HAM radio in Germany some years ago, the
>telecommunication allowed us first
>by "official order" to use
>stroke 60 (I was DL8AAM/60..hi), but after some time they recognized that
>this not allowed and illegal
>they stoped that celebration-callsign. (BTW, what is about such calls like
>W1AW/127 ?? )
>At that time they first planned to changed the prefix number for
>clubstations (Zero in DL)
>to 60 (so DL60AAA), but that was refused by the telecomm ministry, because
>this format of (HAM) prefixes is totaly illegal according to
>the ITU-rules for HAM-Callsign-building !! (BTW, what is about callsigns
>like HG100A, etc. ...hi)
>
>
> You are not required to log 'things' that are appended to the call sign
> which are considered 'descriptive' additions.
>
> 73
> Dale K5MM
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