[ILQSO] Portable Operation

[Chuck]

I remember field day stations signing /9 (or what the district was). Same with if you were out of district such as me operating in CA KI9A/6



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> On Dec 10, 2022, at 10:32 AM, Michael Johnson <mike at palomonet.com> wrote:
> 
> Some QSO Parties specify how they want the mobiles/portables to ID.  Most
> don't.  We run mobile in the ILQP and the WIQP and neither have a rule.
> Running mobile, we manage about 20 minutes per county so we are switching
> fairly frequently.  We also work repeat stations quite a bit.  As such it
> has been our practice to ID as CALLSIGN/COUNTY  (i.e. KA9FZR / LAKE).  I
> should clarify that as a mobile we are operating exclusively CW.
> 
> This works pretty well for us.  The skimmers also pickup on it so it helps
> to sort out the DUPE status for the logging software most folks are using.
> 
> MJ, WO9B
> 
> 
>> On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 10:22 AM Carl Buehler <cbuehlercbuehler at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Would like clarification looking ahead to next year.
>> 
>> What is the preferred way of station i.d. while portable? It seemed to me
>> that I should use k9za/9 for operating and logging.  Apparently most others
>> simply use their call sign without the /9 suffix.
>> 
>> Thanks for help.
>> -Carl, k9za
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