[Elecraft] Re:Signing /QRP

[Jozef Hand-Boniakowski]

Simply put: when I call CQ and I have multiple stations respond, I give 
preference to the station that is the weakest or who signs /QRP which is 
not always one and the same.

Jozef WB2MIC

Dave Sergeant wrote:
> On 12 Jun 2007 at 4:03, GM4SLV wrote:
>
>   
>> As far as I can read in our regs there's nothing to prevent adding
>> /QRP to one's callsign. As long as your "basic" call is given
>> correctly then anything else is allowed in a QSO - tagging /QRP to the
>> end seems to me to be just part of the rest of the QSO. It's splitting
>> hairs to worry about the difference between "GM4SLV/QRP" and
>> "GM4SLV<space>QRP" and (when I'm sending!!) "GM4SLV<might be a space,
>> might not be who can tell>/QRP"
>>     
>
> But I see the comment earlier that US FCC licences specifically have 
> a clause allowing you to add your self assigned suffixes, which does 
> indicate it is legal in the USA. I know of no other licence 
> administration which has this and it is certainly not the case in the 
> UK. The only suffixes our standard licence allows (and which is now 
> optional) are /P, /A and /M - and if you have the appropriate licence 
> /MM and /AM (but aeronautical mobile is to all intents and purposes 
> never licenseable in the UK). Any other suffixes are by implication 
> not allowed.
>
> I now have 220 countries worked on QRP and have NEVER put a /QRP on 
> my call. I only ever say G3YMC QRP (no /) towards the end of a QSO 
> with another QRP station, and normally don't even mention that I am 
> QRP until well into the QSO when I give details of the rig. It is 
> absolutely never justified in contests/pileups and as far as I am 
> concerned /QRP is never part of any callsign and never gets logged or 
> acknowledged by me.
>
> As for calling weak signals and hoping they will come back, I have 
> just had three QSOs with FY/G3SXW and FY/G3TXF. In each case their 
> signal was just above the noise and I would normally never even think 
> it worth calling. But since I know Roger and Nigel I decided to have 
> a go. In each case he came back after just one or two calls through 
> the pileup (and the usual 599...). Never underrate your ability to 
> work weak stations on QRP...
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
> http://www.davesergeant.com
>
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