Besides not being portable, but being at your permanent QTH,
Besides the US not having call areas any longer, except for the
purposes of FCC issuing a new, sequential callsign,
If you intend to use LOTW for awards, a callsign with a portable
designator is not the same as the home callsign.
For example, if Bob uploaded his log to LOTW signed as N4HY, and then
for some strange reason signed N4HY/2 from his home QTH during a
contest, anyone trying to e-confirm a QSO with N4HY/2 will come up
empty.
I suggest being consistent. Sign your call one way or the other. If
you want to use a portable designator from home, use it all the time.
If not, don't use it at all (you're not portable, you're home).
Barry, W2UP, at home in PA (not /3)
On 4 Oct 2003 Robert McGwier wrote:
> Before Don sent out a note earlier this year,
> I operated as N4HY in RTTY contests and never
> thought about the problems it might cause others.
> Since Don's note, I have signed N4HY/2. It cost
> me before I changed. I lost out on a certificate
> in W2 by failing to sign as and send in my log as
> N4HY/2 in the ANARTS.
>
> It costs a few ms to sign portable in RTTY
> and my lesson is fully learned.
>
> Bob
> N4HY
>
>
>
>
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