[Elecraft] [OT] Mobile/Portable gray zone

[Fred Jensen]

On 9/7/2016 2:14 PM, GRANT YOUNGMAN wrote:
> The FeeCee no longer cares about this technicality.  If forced to
> choose, I’d probably sign mobile if I  were using my mobile rig and
> mobile ant, moving or parked.  If I were using my car to hold up a
> mast and a beam on a grassy spot — portable.

If you're on CW and you sign NQ5T/M, you are non-compliant with 47CFR97. 
  Self-assigned indicators cannot duplicate ITU-assigned prefixes and 
all the M's belong to HM Queen Elizabeth [or somesuch].
>
> Which begs the question — are you still “MM" if your boat is tied up
> to a pier?

Technically, you are MM only when in international waters and very few 
docks are found in international waters [maybe drilling platforms?].

73,

Fred K6DGW
Sparks NV
Washoe County DM09dn