Because it piqued my interest I went looking... the longest callsign ever VI2BMARC50 was issued by the ACMA for a special event (VI2BMARC50) in 2008 http://monitor-post.blogspot.com.au/2007/12/longest-ham-radio-special-event.html
I thought there was a requirement or convention of appending the current state you were operating in in .au too (so vk3fbae operating in qld becomes vk3fbae/vk4) but I can't seem to find any documents supporting that. Grant. On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Keith Packard <[email protected]> wrote: > Thomas Müller <[email protected]> writes: > > > Hi, > > I have trouble changing the callsign of the telemetrum to something with > a > > slash inside. > > I can change it for the ground station but the telemetrum does not > accept a > > slash. > > I would like to change my callsign to "HB/DO9THO" for example which is > > necessary if you operate in a country which is not your home country. > > I'm afraid you can't use a callsign longer than 8 characters. I hadn't > thought of the remote callsign requirement when specifying the maximum > length. There isn't any character restriction, just a maximum length. > > Changing this would require modifying all of the log file formats and > radio protocols... > > -keith > > _______________________________________________ > altusmetrum mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gag.com/mailman/listinfo/altusmetrum > >
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