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.

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.



IARU provides guidance on what a " gentleman" ought to observe.
f ex:
In virtually all countries outside USA the bandplan is observed on the basis
of " gentlemens agreement "


PREFIX/CALLSIGN was invented by hams.


Nonsense.

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 21:23:38 +0100, "Ragnar Otterstad"
wrote:


IARU provides guidance on what a " gentleman" ought to observe.
f ex:
In virtually all countries outside USA the bandplan is observed on the basis
of " gentlemens agreement "


Yeah, I know. That's why there are a hundred screaming meemies from
EU on 7.005 SSB during a contest :-)

73, Jim KH2D