Seems pretty black-and-white to me (unlike a lot of things in Part
97). Personally, I'm happy to do away with it. It shortens the ID a
bit and eliminates stating the obvious. ID'ing with /R is kinda like
like saying 'This is WM4B for ID' (as opposed to... ?).
I was not aware that some controllers hard-programmed the /R onto the
ID. I'd be curious to know specific examples of these controllers, just
for my own edification.
73,
Mike
WM4B
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:11 AM , Mike Pugh wrote:
mwbese...@cox. net <mailto:mwbese...@cox.net> wrote:
'R' is assigned by ITU to European and Asiatic Russia.
Mike WM4B
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:28 AM , Bob M. wrote:
USC 47 part 97 (FCC amateur service) rule 97.119(c) quoted below:
" (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."
Seems to me that "/R" is allowed, unless the "R" is not an
FCC-specified indicator.
I couldn't find a list of acceptable indicators in Part 97, which was
surprising.
Bob M. ====== --- On Mon, 5/4/09, Mike Besemer (WM4B) <
mwbese...@cox. net <mailto:mwbese...@cox.net> > wrote:
From: Mike Besemer (WM4B) < mwbese...@cox. net
<mailto:mwbese...@cox.net> > Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] 440
Repeater Project To: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com
<mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com> Date: Monday, May 4, 2009,
5:55 AM
Actually, the /R is not ALLOWED by FCC rules any longer.
Mike WM4B
From: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com
<mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com> [mailto: Repeater-Builder@
yahoogroups. com <mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com> ] On
Behalf Of Paul Plack Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 2:20 AM To:
Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com
<mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com> Subject: Re:
[Repeater-Builder] 440 Repeater Project
Dean, you have one: KJ4LII/R.
Discreet repeater callsigns have been gone for decades. The
repeater's callsign these days is typically the owner, another
individual designated by the owner as the licensee, or in some cases
a club callsign.
Controllers are often programmed to appends "/R" to the end of the
callsign, but even that is not required any more.
I can see both sides of this, however, I think that I'll just keep on
using the /R till I get a ticket for it. I can't imagine that any FCC
official that hears my repeaters in Ky could imagine that the signal was
coming from Russia.. Mike
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