[Boatanchors] Help With Determining My "Section" Number

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

Hi, Duane and all.

 

The report that YOU would give would be ONE DELTA MICHIGAN,

or ONE DELTA MIKE INDIA assuming you are running a fixed home

station on  commerical power.


The first digit indicates the number of transmitters in use.

 

The second digit represents the class of your operation.

 

ALPHA is a group portable station ofa club or more than

two operators

 

BRAVO is a one or two-person operation.

 

CHARLIE represents a mobile station.

 

DELTA represents a fixed station on commercial power.

 

ECHO is used for fixed stations using emergency power.

 

FOXTROT indicates a station at some type of emergency

operations center.

 

The final 2 or 3 characters indicate the A R R L section.

 

Some A R R L divisions have states that are divided into

several sections, which requires three characters.

 

The section abbreviations are found in Q S T magazine

on the A R R L section manager page.

 

Good luck and have fun!

 


73 - Mac K2GKK

Oklahoma City

 
 

 
> From: dfischer at usol.com
> To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:40:40 -0400
> Subject: [Boatanchors] Help With Determining My "Section" Number
> 
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am being asked this Field Day Weekend for my "Section Number". Apparently 
> I missed something in years gone by doing the calculations. The number I end 
> up with is not right in any case. Please help me calculate it right. Thank 
> you.
> 
> I was talking with a station in Hawaii and he was 1AP. Now that is one 
> transmitter, an amplifier and I assume his state, although Hawaii. was "P" 
> for the Pacific. Am i correct?
> 
> I have one transmitter in use, so that is my "1". I am using a small 450 
> watt PEP amplifier so there is my amplifier for the "A". I live in 
> southeastern Michigan. Since I give my city and state out of habit it is 
> always said. But what do I do for the state or whatever that third 
> designator is?
> 
> Thank you 'very' much gentlemen.
> 
> Duane, W8DBF
> 
> Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
> E-Mail: dfischer at usol.com
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