"Steve Robeson K4YZ" wrote


And a primary station location should be required on the license.


That's your opinion.

In the FCC's opinion it is not a regulatory necessity, thus they don't
require it.

Just as they no longer require you to certify you've operated CW at
least 10 hours in the past year or you can't renew your license, they no
longer require you to be an Extra to operate an amateur radio station in
space, they no longer require you to keep a strict record (log) of your
stations transmissions (including fruitless CQ's), they no longer
require you to advance-notify your District Engineer each month you will
be operating portable or mobile and include a "specific as possible"
itinery of your mobile operation, and they no longer require your
station to have a device to measure your transmitting frequency
(independent of the transmitter).

These are all archaic regulations, just like "primary station location
required", which did not serve any FCC regulatory purpose and they have
discarded.

If you feel you need to still keep a log, feel free to do so. If you
feel you still need your primary station location inscribed on your
license, feel free to inscribe it there (there's a nice spot on the
document under "Special Conditions" where you could also record the
address of your District Engineer so you can notifiy him each month that
you'll be operating 'mobile' away from your "primary station location").
When you renew, be sure to include a copy of your log to fulfill the
"hours of CW operation in the past year" requirement .

Or not, as you wish.


It's a way of saying it's annoying to answer a W1 calling CQ cuz you
need
New England states for WAS only to find out he's in Los Angeles.


FCC doesn't regulate WAS, so they don't impose WAS requirements on the
call sign structure.

Your example is pretty contrived anyhow, because there are several
states in "1-land", so unless you need every one of them, a quick check
of your callboook would have revealed he's in Sacremento.

73, de Hans, K0HB/4ID