At 10:04 04.03.1998 -0600, you wrote:
>
> Jim:
> The correct response to your last sentence.....in two words.... is HELL NO.
> Any reasonable ham radio operator knows that /QRP is not part of ANY call
> sign throughout the world. It is just additional ruffage that in fact is
> useless.
>
> The station's call sign DOES NOT include that /QRP suffix. Some ops
> will give you their call sign as, for example, "RA0xxx/Vlad". Would
> you log all of that?? I don't think so.
>
Hy Dale,
I can remeber some years ago, there was an article in the german CQ-DL
magazine publishing a note from the german telecommunication authority.
According to them everything which is connected to the "main" callsign by
using a stroke ( / ) is an official part of the callsign (by international
telecommunications laws for
callsign building of the ITU). Additions to the (HAM) callsign
could be ONLY (by international-ITU laws/rules) a "regional" addition (like
/4, /KH1 or DL/, etc.) or status
additions like (/p, /A, /m, /am, /mm, etc.), sometimes an addition indicate a
second operator/etc. (like the VU7WCY/CVP etc., meaing VU2CVP operating
VU7WCY, or "stroke second OP" for
newly licenced (or upgraded: /AG, /T, etc. in the US) OPs while waiting for
their own callsign (I think that is possible in OE, and ??),
In Germany we have the rule that if I operate the station of (the private
licencee) DL1AAA I have (!!) to sign DL1AAA/DL8AAM
(!!) rather long but a must,
the only exception is while operation in an internataional contest. (So a
group of OPs could operate under one private OP callsign of
somebody else, but ONLY in an INTERNATIONAL contest)
Any Q-Code/etc. are no integral part of any
callsign-building and are illegal, they suggest an addition indicating a QRP
operation by using e.g. DL8AAM-QRP, etc.
but / is illegal according to international treaties/rules about
callsign-building. QRP additions are only a "private" idea of
the HAM community and no official intergovermental "style".
When we celebrate our 60th year of HAM radio in Germany some years ago, the
telecommunication allowed us first
by "official order" to use
stroke 60 (I was DL8AAM/60..hi), but after some time they recognized that
this not allowed and illegal
they stoped that celebration-callsign. (BTW, what is about such calls like
W1AW/127 ?? )
At that time they first planned to changed the prefix number for
clubstations (Zero in DL)
to 60 (so DL60AAA), but that was refused by the telecomm ministry, because
this format of (HAM) prefixes is totaly illegal according to
the ITU-rules for HAM-Callsign-building !! (BTW, what is about callsigns
like HG100A, etc. ...hi)
> You are not required to log 'things' that are appended to the call sign
> which are considered 'descriptive' additions.
>
> 73
> Dale K5MM
best greetings !
and sorry for "crashing each little sandcorn much more little", but thats
the rules (official...hihi)
73 es GDX, Tom
PS: In the new planned reorganisation of the DL HAM laws we are now free
(from 1st may 98) to omit
the use of /m, etc. (when I understand the new rules correctly, have to
re-read the "law-german" language
much more times..hi)
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