[Elecraft] [KX3] QSO of the week (and a re-learned QRP SSB tip

[Fred Jensen]

Which of course makes /M ["I'm on wheels"] and /MM ["I'm afloat"] 
non-compliant, all the M's belong to the UK. Attention pilots:  /AM 
["I'm aloft"] is also non-compliant since AM belongs to Spain.  /R ["I'm 
a repeater], /B ["I'm a beacon"], and /PM ["I'm walkin and talkin"] are 
too, all the R's are Russian, the B's Chinese, and PM belongs to 
Indonesia.  /P is probably compliant since the P's are split between 
multiple countries and always have a second number/letter.  No prefixes 
start with Q so /QRP is compliant.  So is /QSD ["I can't send for 
beans"].  Interesting that the SOTA folk never [almost] use /QRP or 
/<anything>.  I guess the assumption is that if you've carried your 
station up a mountain and call CQ SOTA, odds are high you're in the 
field and likely did not drag a generator along.  I don't believe anyone 
has done time in the "Gated Community for the Ethically Challenged" for 
violations of this however.

Personally, I don't care what indicators you use as long as I can find 
your call in there somewhere.

73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 7/2/2018 12:49 PM, Wes Stewart wrote:
> Seem like much to do about nothing.
>
> How about "stroke 7" or "slant 7"?
>
> If I didn't need to get more QSLs with the call, I would use N7WS/60 
> this year, for my sixtieth year in ham radio.
>
> Here's what the FCC thinks about the subject:
>
> "In addition to the special event call sign system, any amateur 
> station, including a special event station, may include with its 
> assigned call sign one or more indicators (example "W1AW/national 
> convention"). Each indicator must be separated from the assigned call 
> sign by a slant ("/") or any suitable word that denotes the slant mark 
> ("portable," "stroke," etc.). If the indicator is self-assigned, it 
> must be included before, after, or both before and after, the assigned 
> call sign (example "KP2/W1AW/contest"). No self-assigned indicator may 
> conflict with any other indicator specified by the FCC Rules (such as 
> "AA", "AG", "AE" or "KT") or with any prefix assigned to another 
> country (such as "DL", "F", "G" or "VE")."
>
> Wes  N7WS/60