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

[a45wg]

This is something that the Oman Radio Society asks all members to do for a month starting on "National Day" (Read 4th July) 

What a pain in the a**e !!!  for example  "a45wg/ND48"  (National-Day 48th Year). It is totally meaningless for 99% of all hams.

I like the /qrp if they truly are qrp

I now get down from my soap-box

	73s all

		Tim


> On Jul 3, 2018, at 3:49 AM, Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws at triconet.org> 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
> 
> 
> 
> On 7/2/2018 11:19 AM, ANDY DURBIN wrote:
>> "/QRP often, but not always, indicates a field operation, and they're sort of fun to work, at least for me."
>> 
>> 
>> And sometimes it means someone running 5 W to a 6 ele Yagi at 75 ft! That station has far higher ERP that I do running 100 W with my modest antennas.
>> 
>> 
>> If I was portable in UK, where had my first licence, my call was g3wyc/p. US operators have completely butchered and obfuscated the meaning of portable by verbalizing k3wyc/7 as "k3wyc portable 7". The /7 suffix does not mean I am portable. It just means I'm operating in region 7 and I'm saying so because it is required for the contest in which I'm operating.
>> 
>> 
>> If you want special attention because you are portable why not indicate portable rather than QRP?
>> 
>> 
>> 73,
>> 
>> Andy k3wyc
> 
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