I would agree that "R" as a suffix could be used if an amateur was operating in that country, much the same way a Russian ham would append something like /W1 if he/she was operating in the United States 1st callsign district. Do Russian callsigns also have a numerical district, like they do in the US? If so, wouldn't you need /R1 if you were operating there? If yes, that would make plain old /R legitimate for repeaters.
However, it's probably not going to cause any confusion if a US amateur repeater puts /R on the station ID. I'm sure there are plenty of repeaters that have had issues with the FCC and if they had a problem with all of us using /R they would have put it specifically in the rules or given us a suffix they WANT us to use, if anything. Maybe we should all change to /RPT, or is that some other country's prefix too? Bob M. ====== --- On Mon, 5/4/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] 440 Repeater Project To: [email protected] Date: Monday, May 4, 2009, 8:54 AM "§97.119 Station identification. (c) One or more indicators may be included with the call sign. Each indicator must be separated from the call sign by the slant mark (/) or by any suitable word that denotes the slant mark. If an indicator is self-assigned, it must be included before, after, or both before and after, the call sign. No self-assigned indicator may conflict with any other indicator specified by the FCC Rules or with any prefix assigned to another country." /R is a self-assigned indicator and 'R' is assigned by ITU to Russia. Mike WM4B P.S. There are a LOT of repeaters out there still signing /R. On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:52 AM , Mike Pugh wrote: Mike Besemer (WM4B) wrote: > > > Actually, the /R is not ALLOWED by FCC rules any longer. > > > This is interesting, can you show us where in the rules this is?
