[RTTY] US call signs (BARTG)

[Jay WS7I]

This is simple, Joe.  Use your callsign portable or don't enter BARTG.  
US regulation has nothing to do with contesting.  You're wrong they 
insist that you voluntarily use your callsign portable which is allowed 
or they don't accept your entry.

BARTG pre-dates nearly every other contest and has been running a long 
long time and they don't need to use another contest's rules nor to 
modify it for stations who don't wish to abide by their rules.

Frankly I don't see what all the fuss is with this.  If WA1PMA who is 
really WA1PMA/7 wants to keep his call sign and he does; and if W6AEA 
wants to keep his I see no problem at all.  But if they want to play in 
BARTG they need to sign WA1PMA/7 and W6AEA/7 and neither Wayne nor 
George seems to have a problem with this one wonders why you do ?  Since 
you're a W4 in florida.

It is simple.  For BARTG sign portable or don't play.



On 1/8/2013 8:47 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>
> Phil,
>
> Make it simple ... instead of only a serial number include the
> multiplier in the exchange.  That way if you were GU0SUP on
> the mainland your exchange would include G ... if I were to
> operate portable from my mother's home in W8 my exchange would
> include W8 (or K8, etc.).
>
> The alternative is to use the WAE rules as someone else suggested
> but that doesn't handle KH2D or KH7XS (in W4), NP2D (in W2),
> KV4FZ (in KP2), K9FD (in  KH6!) etc.
>
> The US *regulations* are simple - there are no more call areas
> for any purpose except the *initial* assignment of callsigns.  Any
> *requirement* by a contest sponsor that we use a self-assigned
> modifier (portable designator) *is contrary to our regulations*
> - yes we may voluntarily use such "self assigned identifiers"
> after the callsign but there *is no regulatory requirement* to
> do so.  If the sponsor wishes *every station* to attach his
> multiplier status to the callsign, e.g. GU0SUP/GU0 - that's
> fine but don't require *only* one group of US stations to do so.
>
> 73,
>
>    ... Joe, W4TV