Joe,
You might want to be careful using that /OH indicator. From the FCC
rules 97.119:
"No self-assigned indicator may conflict with any other indicator
specified by the FCC Rules or with any prefix assigned to another country."
OH is a prefix assigned to Finland.
Also, you might be getting calls from stations thinking you are actually
in Finland.
73,
Jim N6VH
On 2/6/2017 2:09 PM, Joe Fischer wrote:
I very much prefer the K9MA/WI pattern. Immediately lets me know
that this person is not in MN and I won’t call him. Usually when I
try to raise somebody in MN, for example, by calling 'CQ MNQP de
AA8TA/OH' I’ll get more people from other states respond than
in-state participants. No biggie, I log them then transfer them to
main log and take them out of the Cabrillo file.
TU es 73 de Joe AA8TA
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In the MNQP yesterday, I found I had to sign "K9MA/WI" when calling
CQ, so callers knew I was not in MN. A lot of MN stations the
duped me, as I had omitted the /WI when I called them. So, now
there are two versions of my call in some logs, but I didn't really
want to waste time adding the /WI when calling MN stations. What
to do? I tried adding 1.5 spaces before the /WI, in the hope that
other operators would not log that part. I think it would be best
if everyone could agree on some designator for stations outside the
target state, or at least not to log them. Any other suggestions?
73,
Scott K9MA
-- Scott K9MA
k9ma@sdellington.us
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