On Thu 27 Jul j...@kk9a.com wrote: > I had no idea that signing /QRP was illegal in some countries.
Different jurisdictions have different ideas about identification requirements, and licence wording is sometimes open to interpretation. For example: In the UK the licence says that operators "may use" certain suffixes. The only ones included are "/M", "/P", "/MM" and "/A". You could infer from the "may use" wording that these suffixes are permitted and that therefore all other suffixes are forbidden, or you could just assume that these four are picked out in the licence but there's no explicit prohibition against anything else being used. It would probably require a court decision to detemine which of those options actually applies. I have no desire to be involved in such a court case, so I'll use no suffixes other than the ones the licence says I "may use". In the Kenya licence, the wording is "shall use", which makes it clear that no other suffixes are permitted. The only suffixes mentioned in the licence are "/P" (for use at a temporary location), "/M" (for use when mobile) and "/MM" (for use when on a vessel at sea). If no suffix is attached to a Kenya callsign then the operator must be at their main station address, so, if you hear me signing as 5Z4/M0LEP then I'm at my mother's house (and nowhere else) and if I sign as 5Z4/M0LEP/P I'm elsewhere in Kenya. Log me as 5Z4/M0LEP when I've signed as 5Z4/M0LEP/P (or vice versa) and you'll have a busted call. ....and incidentally, all the contacts I've made as 5Z4/M0LEP/P have been using my KX3 with simple in-the-field antennas. ;) -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281) ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
