[Elecraft] 20 meter CW

[Richard Fjeld]

I wish others who have moved out of their call sign area would sign witn a slash/area.  

Many times I have spun the beam a 180 around to answer a call sign from that area only to find out he was in the area I was first aiming to.  It takes a long time.  Now, if I had a SteppIr........

Dick, n0ce

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ron D'Eau Claire 
  To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 6:35 PM
  Subject: Re: [Elecraft] 20 meter CW


  Rather superfluous now that the call sign no longer identifies the FCC
  engineering district of the home station. 

  That was one of the all-time bad moves by the FCC, IMHO, but it was popular
  among Hams who moved out of the district but couldn't bear to give up their
  call sign. 

  73, Ron AC7AC (ex, W6QAS, ex AC6Y, both random call assignments by the FCC.
  I put my call where my mouth was when I moved to Oregon and let the FCC
  computer assign me a random 7 area call and got AC7AC.  It's longer but it's
  a neat call.)  

  -----Original Message-----
  From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
  [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bill Frantz
  Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 3:56 PM
  To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
  Subject: Re: [Elecraft] 20 meter CW

  When I am in New Hampshire I sign AE6JV/1 on PSK although it isn't required.

  Cheers - Bill, AE6JV/1

  On 7/2/13 at 3:09 PM, ke6gda at gmail.com (Stephen Selberg) wrote:

  > Christian. The weird suffix is because I'm at the in-laws house in Nevada.
  > My home QTH is in california. I was off the air until for some years 
  > up until April 2012. Are people still using /call area when out of 
  > their home call area?

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