Ken Arck wrote:
> Hmmmm... A H 6 L E / W R
>
> (gotta love it!)
>
> KEn
>
>
heh-well that wasn't quite what I meant, but....;c}
really it was special callsigns with a WR prefix. The club's repeater I
belong to here started as WA8TTO, then WB8CRP, then WR8ADV before the
rules changed.
> At 04:48 PM 5/11/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>Well, how 'bout a short history lesson?
>>Back around '76 or '77, the rules for repeaters changed drastically.
>>Prior to that, repeaters required a separate repeater license, which
>>required a vey lengthy application. The last few years of that repeaters
>>were issued WR callsigns, before that they were either the trustees call
>>or a club call. Then when it all changed, any ham with a tech or above
>>could put up a repeater at any time with no special license, just the
>>requirement that it ID with either /R or /RPT in morse, or the word
>>'repeater' in voice. Auxiliary links had to use /A or /AUX, or the word
>>'auxiliary'.
>>This rule is a carry over from that, to allow the use of those suffixes
>>if desired.
>>
>>--
>>Jim Barbour
>>WD8CHL
>>
>>
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