Hi Julian Unfortunately, our FCC has gotten lazy, and now allows a ham to keep his call when he moves. We've all been bitten by your problem when chasing things like WAS certificates. The only use the district number has now is to tell you in which district the call was issued, and nothing about where it is being used now. In the past we had to add /4 or whatever district the call was being used in, if not the original district. No longer. FCC just doesn't seem to care. Fortunately, the vast majority of calls are still in their original districts, so WAS is still not a big problem. 73, Bob N6WG
----- Original Message ----- From: "Julian G4ILO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "elecraft" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 7:29 AM Subject: [Elecraft] OT: US call areas > This is probably common knowledge to most, but do US calls not relate > to the geographic area any more? In the contest, I worked call area 6, > which my map shows as the west coast, but the station I worked, N6AR, > is listed in qrz.com with an address in Florida, which is call area 4. > Do call areas have *any* use (e.g. for multipliers in ARRL contest > scores)? > > -- > Julian, G4ILO K2 s/n: 392 K3 s/n: ??? > G4ILO's Shack: www.g4ilo.com > Zerobeat Ham Forums: www.zerobeat.net/smf > _______________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Post to: [email protected] > You must be a subscriber to post to the list. > Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm > Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
