[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net - hail signs

[Kevin Rock]

Here is a quote, found by a friend, covering a topic of interest for ECN operators.  Mr. Hollingsworth states that shortened call signs may be used if they are then 
followed by the full call sign within ten minutes.  I will try my best to make the time interval much shorter than that during the net.
   73,
        Kevin.   KD5ONS


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Hollingsworth also told Strauss that the practice of "identifying only by the last two letters of an Amateur call sign is a violation of Part 97" of the FCC rules and 
that such practice "must not be condoned by your group." Some amateurs had construed the statement�widely reported elsewhere�as a tightening of FCC 
station identification enforcement policy. Hollingsworth says that's not the case.

"All we said was that if only the last two letters are given, it doesn't meet Part 97," he said. He pointed out that if a calling station using an abbreviated ID is never 
acknowledged and given a chance to give a complete call sign, a legal ID would be lacking for that communication. To be strictly legal, stations using a suffix-letter 
ID always must identify within the first 10 minutes of the communication (and each 10 minutes thereafter) with a complete call sign. Hollingsworth restated the 
requirements in a follow-up letter to Strauss on November 16.

Hollingsworth this week also reminded net control stations not to encourage rule violations by requiring check- ins to use two-letter IDs without allowing a legal ID 
at some point within the time limits of the rules.
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