[Elecraft] USE OF CLUB CALL SIGNS

[Kent Trimble]

(Different topic, but related) ...

Quite true as to club members using club call signs, but they can only 
do so with the permission of the call's trustee who is responsible to 
the FCC for legal operating regardless of who's using it. This federal 
rule is in effect for many reasons, not the least of which is to prevent 
multiple transmissions of the same call sign, on the same band, at the 
same time, within the same mode.  It is also to insure club call signs 
are used in a manner consistent with FCC regulations and the club's 
bylaws.  The trustee needs to know who's using what, why, when, and where.

In that regard ... our club limits use of the club's two call signs to 
paid up members wishing to use them during contests and club sanctioned 
events.  They are not to be used for routine QSOs.  That's what personal 
call signs are for.

Obviously, we do not have a physical club station.  If we did, I suspect 
the restriction against routine QSOs would be deleted.

I changed the subject line in order to address a tangential bootlegging 
issue which arose prior to and immediately following last month's Field 
Day when we discovered one of our call signs was being used on QRP 
frequencies without the trustee's permission by an unknown operator 
(hopefully not a club member).  My higher instincts assume it was an 
innocent mistake by a new licensee.

73,
Kent
K9ZTV



On 7/21/2025 4:47 PM, Gerry Hull via Elecraft wrote:
> If any of the operators have acess to a club call, they may use it... But
> not use it to hide their own restrictions.  The trustee license class does
> not determine privlege...the control operator does.
>
> 73
>
> Gerry W1VE
>