Ken and list:
Generally speaking, if I hear a station calling CQ with /QRP, I'll
answer with /QRP. Particularly on domestic QSOs, I'm more interested
in working other QRP stations than high powered stations. Thus, when
I hear "/QRP" I do not hear it as "please take pity," but rather as
"here's an interesting QSO in the offing."
It is usually not a good idea to sign "/QRP" in contests or DX
pileups; in those circumstances, the station being called by multiple
callers answers the first call he/she makes sense of; either the
loudest or the shortest. Anyway, contest action moves too fast to
allow for unnecessary information.
As for legality, for FCC licensed stations, signing "/QRP" is
perfectly legal. FCC Regs 97.119(c) allows for "self-assigned
indicators." There is an interesting gotcha to the rule. The last
sentence of the regulation says "No self-assigned may conflict with
any other indicator specified by the FCC rules, or with any prefix
assigned to another country." Q signals, including QRP, pose no such
conflict. However, as W3BE points out, other popular "self-assigned
indicators" are illegal, particularly "/M," commonly used by mobile
stations, a prefix assigned to the UK, and "/R" commonly used by
repeaters, a prefix assigned to Russia, and used for special ham
callsigns for Russian WW2 veterans.
73,
Steve Kercel
AA4AK
At 10:05 AM 6/11/2007, Ken Kopp wrote:
Signing "/QRP" can be viewed as "please take pitty on me" thing.
73! Ken Kopp - K0PP
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