Guys - this QRP thread needs to die.
Thanks.
Tree
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Mike & Coreen Smith <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
> A very very few times, I have used /QRP,. but 99.9% of the time I don't-
> it's not me...
>
> I worked VK0IR on 20m SSB in the middle of the night using a couple watts.
> The op stopped, worked me, and we chatted for probably a good minute or two.
> He was quite surprised. No idea who the op was, but I am sure he'd remember,
> even to this day. I had already worked them days earlier, as plain jane
> "VE9AA", so I didn't want to appear in their log as a dupe. This was a
> super rare thing to hear my part of the work in the middle of the night on
> 20m with 59 signals....the rest of 20m was stone cold dead....(Es link to F2
> I think) so he made a point to find out what was up. He had been only
> working a very few EU's @ the time.
>
> If I thought my signal was super weak and the station was asking me for
> repeats, I am smart enough to drop the /QRP like a hot potato and move
> forward with my basic callsign. It goes both ways. A little intuitiveness
> goes a long way. (AKA common sense)
>
> HOWEVER, I don't get all worked up about others signing it to me. It's
> perfectly fine. Sometimes, if things are slow, I'll say "NICE SIG /QRP OM"
> or whatever, if it truly is a nice signal. Maybe that QRP guy wants to know
> how well he's being heard. In SSB contests (only if things are slow...) I
> might ask the guy what he's running for an antenna....he's not working
> strings of UA0's, so he'll likely stop and tell you. Relax people. Let
> them sign what they want to sign.
>
> I do a lot of HF mobile and I have to sign /M.......that's what we are told
> to do here. (nobody thinks I am in the UK, that's just plain silly)
>
> 73 de Mike VE9AA/M
>
> Mike, Coreen & Corey Smith
> 699 Rte 616 Keswick Ridge
> NB
> Canada
> E6L 1T1
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jan Erik Holm
> To: topband@contesting.com
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 4:52 PM
> Subject: Re: Topband: QRP Question
>
>
> Yes really. FCC does not rule the world and in this case
> FCC is wrong.
>
> Country designator is put before the callsign. This changed
> way back in the 1970´ties
>
> Not to confuse things if I go to England and work mobile
> I could sign G3/SM2EKM/m or M3/SM2EKM/m, plain and simple
> and not confusing.
>
> Not to waist any more BW I will now QSY to a different QRG.
>
> /Jim SM2EKM
> ------------
> On 2011-12-13 06:32, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
> > Really?
> >
> > FCC rules:
> >
> > (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.*
> >
> > *M England (M3xxx and M6xxx - Foundation Class Licence,
> > All others - Full Licence Grade)
> 14 27*
> >
> >
> >
> > As I said nobody enforces this. Your licensing may be different.
> >
> > Mike W0MU
> >
> > W0MU-1 CC Cluster w0mu.net
> >
> >
> > On 12/12/2011 10:21 PM, Jan Erik Holm wrote:
> >> This is so wrong. Please please stop spreading this wrong stuff.
> >>
> >> It is a mobile designator and NO nothing else.
> >>
> >> /Jim SM2EKM
> >> -----------------
> >> On 2011-12-12 18:21, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
> >>> Legally signing /M is only legal if you are in England or one of the
> >>> countries that uses the M prefix. It is readily accepted as Mobile
> but
> >>> is not a legal designator. I am not sure that most of the ones you
> >>> listed are legal IARU or ITU call designators. This could vary from
> >>> country to country.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Mike W0MU
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