[Elecraft] OT: The use "QRP"

[Tom W8JI]

> QRP is not part of any call sign! If you are QRP and
> like a QSO with me don´t ever use forexample K0PP/QRP.
> I simply will NOT answer, I do not answer bogus call 
> signs.
> Also do not call me with "two letters" your "suffix" or 
> whatever
> but your given legal call sign, I simply never ever
> answer things like that.

Not so in the USA. We only have to ID at least once every 
ten minutes during a series of transmissions, when we are 
done transmitting, or within ten minutes of starting 
transmissions.

(a) Each amateur station, except a space station or 
telecommand station, must transmit its assigned call sign on 
its transmitting channel at the end of each communication, 
and at least every 10 minutes during a communication, for 
the purpose of clearly making the source of the 
transmissions from the station known to those receiving the 
transmissions. No station may transmit unidentified 
communications or signals, or transmit as the station call 
sign, any call sign not authorized to the station.


We can legally assign our own designators, like /QRP:

(c) One or more indicators may be included with the call 
sign. Each indicator must be separated from the call sign by 
the slant mark (/) or by any suitable word that denotes the 
slant mark. If an indicator is self-assigned, it must be 
included before, after, or both before and after, the call 
sign. No self-assigned indicator may conflict with any other 
indicator specified by the FCC Rules or with any prefix 
assigned to another country.



So we can say W8JI/QRP legally here so long (not that you 
will ever hear me do that because I don't like it either) as 
"QRP" does not conflict with any other country assignment or 
any assigned FCC indicator.

You might choose not to answer, but the station signing /QRP 
is breaking no laws.

73 Tom