On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 08:18:03 +0000, Walt Davidson
wrote:

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 04:26:03 GMT, wrote:

May be "the law" in beautiful 9V1 land, but the FCC makes the only
laws we worry about over here...

Yes, we have noticed that the USA increasingly makes its own laws and
disregards all international agreements. It used to be only countries
like China, North Korea and Albania that behaved like that ... but not
any more.


Stop jumping the fence, Walter. First you beat up the RSGB (a radio
club) and then you approve of the IAR Who (another radio club), run by
the same guys who run another radio club you don't approve of....

There is no deep, global, political motive behind the fact that my
license was issued by the FCC and IARU "rules" don't apply.

For that matter, IARU rules don't apply to anybody, anywhere. The
IARU has no enforcement power, so it's asinine for them to even
make "rules". Not to mention that if they can't find anything more
important to do than worry about a portable prefix being used on the
front or the rear of a amateur call sign, they should close up shop
because they're as useless as the RSGB and the ARRL put together.

PREFIX/CALLSIGN was invented by hams. Commonly known as the
HERO/ZERO phenomenon. Six ZERO's go to HERO island, and they're
so worried that if they sign ZERO/HERO nobody will listen long enuff
to hear the HERO part, so they invented HERO/ZERO.

Has nothing to do with the IAR Who. It's just a byproduct of the
childish pecking order/post card game that we so dearly love to
play.

73, Jim KH2D