FWIW, here's what the FCC regulations have to say on the topic, probably
further muddying the already cloudy waters:
Part 97
§ 97.119 Station identification
...
(c) One or more indicators may be included with the call sign. Each
indicator must be separated from the call sign by the slant mark (/) or by
any suitable word that denotes the slant mark. If an indicator is
self-assigned, it must be included before, after, or both before and after,
the call sign. No self-assigned indicator may conflict with any other
indicator specified by the FCC Rules or with any prefix assigned to another
country.
(d) When transmitting in conjunction with an event of special significance,
a station may substitute for its assigned call sign a special event call
sign as shown for that station for that period of time on the common data
base coordinated, maintained and disseminated by the special event call sign
data base coordinators. Additionally, the station must transmit its assigned
call sign at least once per hour during such transmissions.
...
(g) When the station is transmitting under the authority of §97.107 of this
part [reciprocal operating authority ? Ed]], an indicator consisting of
the appropriate letter-numeral designating the station location must be
included before the call sign that was issued to the station by the country
granting the license. For an amateur service license granted by the
Government of Canada, however, the indicator must be included after the call
sign. At least once during each intercommunication, the identification
announcement must include the geographical location as nearly as possible by
city and state, commonwealth or possession
-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Scott Monks
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 11:41 AM
To: CQ-Contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Different Location,
Hi all;
My Mexican license is XE1/AA0AA and my U.S. license (obviously) is
AA0AA. I am not "portable" in Mexico--I can apply to have a portable
station (i.e., 2 meters, etc.) but the license only permits operation from
my home in Mexico. It is sort of like the old two-part U.S. licenses with
one being the operator's license and the other the station license. It is
probably the same with the VP9 license.
73,
Scott
>________________________________
> From: Joe <nss@mwt.net>
>To: "cq-contest@contesting.com" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
>Sent: Friday, March 1, 2013 9:41 AM
>Subject: [CQ-Contest] Different Location,
>
>When operating at a different location from what is on your license,
especially when out of your own country, we used to sign differently.
>
>When did this all change anyway?
>
>I've been out of the hobby as far as HF goes for a while. And the
>first time I heard someone sign something like VP9/WB9SBD I thought what a
dumbass doing it backwards!
>
>Dude you are Station WB9SBD portable in Bermuda
>
>Just like when you had to remember everyone having to sign like WB9SBD/9
during field day? because you were operating someplace different from where
your license says.
>
>this doing the prefix first just drives me nuts, it was not like that
before and when did it change.
>A quick look at my QSL's in less than 5 minutes I found 3 examples of how
it used to be.
>
>http://i51.tinypic.com/2dlua20.jpg
>
>Like in those three above was how it was done. When and why has it changed?
>
>Joe WB9SBD
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