[UK-CONTEST] Long calls.

[Dave Sergeant]

On 8 Mar 2011 at 11:20, David G3YYD wrote:

> The /P, /A and /M are as per the licence non-mandatory in others words
> you can use them if you want to but you do not need to use them if you
> do not want to.
> 

My licence says 'it is recommended that the following suffixes are 
used..'. So you can omit them if you wish, though good practice is 
still to use them.

There may be advantage in some contests in leaving them out, but in NFD 
and VHF FD you clearly should use them. They are also sensible in SOTA 
when activating and many other cases where you want to indicate you are 
not at your normal QTH. I always use them.

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com