[Elecraft] US call areas

[Bob Nielsen]

Actually Russian Antarctic stations us a R1 prefix, as do Franz Josef  
Land and Malyj Vysotskij.  I think some contest stations in Russia  
itself also use the R without a second alpha character.

I doubt that anyone would mistake a /M mobile station as being in the  
UK or a /B beacon in China.

The normal convention for operation in another country has that  
country's prefix preceding rather than following the station's call  
sign, although that isn't followed 100 percent.

73, Bob N7XY


On Nov 27, 2007, at 6:50 PM, Phil Kane wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:11:18 -0800, Fred Jensen wrote:
>
>> So all VHF/UHF repeaters that identify "W6XXX/R," and there are
>> a lot of them, are in violation of the rule since "RAA-RZZ" is
>> assigned to Russia?
>
>   This has been kicking around for quite a while.  At one time
>   FCC Rules required adding "/R" or "/RPT" to a repeater call
>   after it stopped issuing "WR" for repeater stations.  The
>   "out"is that "R" alone is not the way that Russia assigns call
>   signs - they use "R" followed by an alpha.  It's a "don't ask,
>   don't tell" situation.  I do advise my ham clients to use
>   "/RPT" to be safe.
>
> --
>    73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
>    Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402
>
>
>
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