[GreenKeys] 2018 ARRL RTTY RU

[Ralph Mowery]

Yes, you can do a call similar to  MYCALL/28ASR. 

 You can use anything you want after the / if it is not in conflict with another designation.  Such as the prefix of a country.


Here is the FCC rule for it.  That is for the US, don't know about any other country.



(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.


De KU4PT


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From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Kevin H. Phillips
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2018 2:08 PM
To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] 2018 ARRL RTTY RU

It seems a shame the users of real machines can't be somehow set themselves apart in the contests.  I wonder if the FCC would go for MYCALL/GK or MYCALL/HM or MYCALL/28ASR?

I don't have my real machines in a convenient place to operate with my radio.  Like Wayne, I did not have time to work the contest much; just a few hours Saturday evening and Sunday an hour or so before the contest ended.  Propagation rarely does me any favors.  I usually don't even hear as many stations as some people report working.  I logged 95 contacts but I guess that was good considering how little I operated. Even though I wasn't running heavy metal, my set-up is still kind of
"vintage":  HAL DS3100ASR with ST-8000 modem keying FSK on my Yaesu FT-2000D.

I had one odd experience.  It happens to me at least once every contest I work.  I was trying to answer a W1, I think.  He'd ask AGN? AGN? and I'd repeat my callsign several times.  Finally, he turned off his macros and typed that I wasn't decoding at all because I was off frequency and went back to calling CQ.  As a back-up tuning method I run MMTTY on my computer and I had his signal right on the traces.  Anybody got any ideas on that?

73

Kevin
W5TTY

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