[ILQSO] Portable Operation

[Jim McDonald]

As I remember, you had to notify FCC if you were going to be operating mobile too - anywhere different than your authorized station location.

Jim N7US


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From: ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net <ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of n9jfcountyhunter at gmail.com
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2022 16:33
To: 'Illinois QSO Party' <ilqso at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [ILQSO] Portable Operation

I'm not sure when that requirement went away, but it was certainly in place in the mid-60's, including the fact that you had to notify the FCC Engineer in Charge of the District that you were going to be operating away from your home QTH.

Jim N9JF

-----Original Message-----
From: ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net <ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Chuck
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2022 10:51 AM
To: Illinois QSO Party <ilqso at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [ILQSO] Portable Operation

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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