[ILQSO] Portable Operation

[Danny Pease]

From an ILQP standpoint, it is a big help when the mobile and rover stations ID with their county, especially on CW. That makes it easier for those following the mobiles from county to county to know when they can work you again and helps reduce dupes for the mobile station.

As far as portable stations, I think signing with your call/p is helpful as it lets others participating in the ILQP know that you will likely be giving more than one county in your exchange. Adding your counties to your call is probably going too far with as it creates a much longer ID process but it may work for some cases. 

Most logging programs will show a station as a dupe when you log another entry with the same call sign without the /m /r or /p so it also helps the operator on the other end to remember to remember that.

Most of the experienced mobile and portable ops have learned what works best for their situation. Hopefully, several more will chime in.

Danny W9DP



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On Dec 10, 2022, 10:32 AM, 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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