[Elecraft] OT: US call areas

[Robert Tellefsen]

Hi Julian
Unfortunately, our FCC has gotten lazy, and now
allows a ham to keep his call when he moves.
We've all been bitten by your problem when
chasing things like WAS certificates.  The only
use the district number has now is to tell you
in which district the call was issued, and nothing
about where it is being used now.
In the past we had to add /4 or whatever district
the call was being used in, if not the original
district.  No longer.  FCC just doesn't seem to
care.
Fortunately, the vast majority of calls are still
in their original districts, so WAS is still not a
big problem.
73, Bob N6WG

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julian G4ILO" <julian.g4ilo at gmail.com>
To: "elecraft" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 7:29 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] OT: US call areas


> This is probably common knowledge to most, but do US calls not relate
> to the geographic area any more? In the contest, I worked call area 6,
> which my map shows as the west coast, but the station I worked, N6AR,
> is listed in qrz.com with an address in Florida, which is call area 4.
> Do call areas have *any* use (e.g. for multipliers in ARRL contest
> scores)?
> 
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