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troesne@gwdg.de writes:
> 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 ..... <clip>
Not to continue to pick the fly-specks out of the pepper bowl, but
here in the US the rules are a lot less restrictive. An amateur
can put most anything (see the FCC rule 97.119(c) below) either
*before* or *after* their call or *both*, separated by a stroke.
Thus you could legally sign in any of the following formats...
KB0XYZ/QRP
KB0XYZ/M
QRP/KB0XYZ
M/KB0XYZ
QRP/KB0XYZ/M
BILL/KB0XYZ
DALE/K5MM/JONES
...but all of them will surely farkle up your contest rate.
§97.119 Station identification.
(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.
73, de HANS/K0HB/4ID
~~~
All good contesters stay young until they die, for the Top-Ten box
is the only dream of youth that doth not grow stale with age.
~~~
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