[UK-CONTEST] Long calls.

David Ferrington, M0XDF M0XDF at Alphadene.co.uk
Tue Mar 8 03:36:55 PST 2011


interesting question - I believe that even if you've always lived in Scotland and applied for you license using an address in Scotland, your licence document would say G4WZG - but I'm open to being enlightened from someone who falls into that category.

73 de M0XDF

On 8 Mar 2011, at 11:19, Andy Cunningham wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Bernie McIntosh (GM4WZG) <gm4wzg at kars.org.uk
>> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Fortunately, although now resident in GM, my licence states "G4WZG"
>> otherwise I presume I would have to sign EA1/GM4WZG/P ? Or do all secondary
>> modifiers get dropped when working abroad ? Perhaps some knowledgable
>> person
>> might want to confirm this. Its always fun asking for knowledgable folk to
>> answer on this reflector :-). Cue different points of view..... At least
>> there can only be two points of view in this case. Or does someone want to
>> debate that point....
>> 
>> 
> Using anything other than the callsign printed on your licence (which I
> assume is G4WZG, even though the address is in Scotland) is going to cause
> confusion if you have to produce the licence for the local authorities, so I
> would say to use what it says on your licence document.



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