[UK-CONTEST] General Rules

[Rob Harrison]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the clarification.

There have been, and certainly are, stations operating /P from a building on 
VHF/UHF, which even though is not illegal, is confusing. As you say, a 
stiffer definition is needed.

As an aside, when I got my "new" free licence a few years ago, it was dated 
from 1977. That's the date on my second incarnation of my original licence, 
which was dated 1973. My callsign was issued way before 1977.

73

Bob  G8HGN

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Sergeant" <dave at davesergeant.com>
To: "uK-Contest" <UK-Contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] General Rules


>
> On 7 Feb 2010 at 13:34, Rob Harrison wrote:
>
>> Seem to remember quite a few years ago the /A suffix was done away with
>> and there was only fixed & /P. However this seems to be blurred, as
>> stations are using /A and as you say the licence doesn't seem to say
>> otherwise. It was probably administrive, rather than operational. Can
>> anyone clarify this?
>>
>
> No....
>
> You are right in that for some years the old /A prefix was dropped and
> we had to use /P to indicate we were away from the licence address
> (either fixed or portable). But when the new license was drawn up
> recently /A was reinstated, with its former meaning (but there seems to
> be confusion on what the licence means by 'alternative address' and
> 'temporary location').
>
> Basically as far as the licence is concerned the suffixes are optional
> but RECOMMENDED - see note (d)
>
> /A - 'Alternative address' away from the address on your licence but in
> a building (usually but not always with mains electricity).
> /P - Portable, ie in a field in a tent or on top of a hill in SOTA or
> whatever.
>
> Although no longer mandatory (but still recommended) if you are
> operating in the portable section of the contest, or in of NFD and VHF
> NFD, you would be pretty silly not to send the /P.
>
> The VHF rules clearly need changing in this area. It should certainly
> be possible to operate in the non-portable sections from a different
> address and indicate so with a /A.
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
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