Portable/mobile call signs
 

I have a question on mobile/portable operation ... I seem to recall that
the FCC dropped the requirement to sign as portable/mobile with the
region the station is operating in. I can't seem to find any reference
to it. I assume that W9XXX/W5 is good operating procedure but is it an
FCC requirement? I do know that a change in the 90s made W5/W9XXX
equally vaid as W9XXX/W5 ....

On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 02:30:27 GMT, Sterling Garwood wrote:

I have a question on mobile/portable operation ... I seem to recall that
the FCC dropped the requirement to sign as portable/mobile with the
region the station is operating in. I can't seem to find any reference
to it. I assume that W9XXX/W5 is good operating procedure but is it an
FCC requirement? I do know that a change in the 90s made W5/W9XXX
equally vaid as W9XXX/W5 ....

Portable or mobile operation have not required a special identifier
for several decades.

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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

Phil ... several? I think that was a requirement when I was a novice in
1962 ... could you give us a year?


73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA (former WN2CJV, WB2OSP, WA3RJX, N2JH)


"Phil Kane" wrote in message
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 02:30:27 GMT, Sterling Garwood wrote:

I have a question on mobile/portable operation ... I seem to recall that
the FCC dropped the requirement to sign as portable/mobile with the
region the station is operating in. I can't seem to find any reference
to it. I assume that W9XXX/W5 is good operating procedure but is it an
FCC requirement? I do know that a change in the 90s made W5/W9XXX
equally vaid as W9XXX/W5 ....

Portable or mobile operation have not required a special identifier
for several decades.

--
73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane




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In article , Sterling
Garwood writes:


I have a question on mobile/portable operation ... I seem to recall that
the FCC dropped the requirement to sign as portable/mobile with the
region the station is operating in.

Sterling:

That is correct.

I can't seem to find any reference to it.

That's because the requirement no longer exists.

I assume that W9XXX/W5 is good operating procedure but is it an
FCC requirement?

No, it is not.

I do know that a change in the 90s made W5/W9XXX
equally vaid as W9XXX/W5 ...

Neither configuration is necessary if a U.S. licensed amateur is operating
within the United States. A U.S. licensed amateur operating under
reciprocal operating authority in a foreign country would sign using the
host nation's prefix plus the U.S. amateur callsign, such as DL2/K3LT,
should I be visiting/operating in Germany.

73 de Larry, K3LT
Ex: KA3HXE, N3CRA, DA1RZ, AFA7LR, DA1ZW, WR2F, G0LYW