[ILQSO] Use of club calls?

[James Funk]

That is one of my concerns.  (Trustee monitoring)

“Unlimited” was intended (by the sponsors….(for whom I can speak…) as an
opportunity for a group to go out, TO ONE LOCATION and be able to have
several people actually doing something instead of waiting around for a
turn at the mic.

It was never intended for multiple individuals to operate, under the same
call, at ten different locations.

Let’s just rule on this now:  If operations A and B are not in the
immediate vicinity of one another, they need to, for ILQP purposes, use
separate calls and submit separate logs.  I do not know, nor do I care, how
POTA would treat this.

N9JF, for the committee


On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 3:13 PM Don Pitchford <w9ebk at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Let me offer an opinion on multiple stations using the same callsign.
> Since the trustee (licensee) is responsible for being the control operator,
> and it's impossible for one person to be in 2 places at once, I think it
> would be illegal (under part 97) to use the same callsign for multiple
> stations.
> Don, W9EBK
>
> > On Oct 15, 2026, at 2:45 PM, James Funk via ILQSO <ilqso at mailman.qth.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > II am still trying to figure out why someone would want to do  this.  I
> > will respond in more detail when I’m not out running a park….
> >
> >> On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 2:27 PM Mark Frost <mark.frost at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Here's more details from the POTA op I was corresponding with originally
> >> about club calls. Would this work? Two stations sharing a 1x1 on
> different
> >> county lines as an UNLIMITED entry? Maybe one station roving?
> >> I'm inclined to say separate stations need separate calls, but I'm no
> >> scholar.
> >> Thoughts?
> >> Mark AC9VC
> >> --------------------------------
> >> We're still figuring out who what where, but as of now, our tentative
> plan
> >> is to have two of us on the Jersey/Greene county line, and one guy on
> the
> >> Saline/Gallatin county line. We may have a 1x1 call to use so we can all
> >> use the same call, as an unlimited. May do some roving too if the
> >> Jersey/Greene line is dead. POTA parks in Macoupin and Calhoun county.
> >> Once I know for sure, I'll let you know.
> >> 73,
> >> Dennis
> >> AD9WM
> >> ---------------------------------
> >> On Mon, Oct 12, 2026, 1:30 PM James Funk <n9jfcountyhunter at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> How are you going to avoid duplicate contacts?  It would all be one
> log.
> >>> We can’t take logs from the same call in multiple counties.
> >>> It sounds like a nightmare to me unless someone can tell me how it
> would
> >>> work. N9JF
> >>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 1:15 PM Mark Frost via ILQSO <
> >>> ilqso at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> >>>> Can Club calls be shared by multiple stations in different locations?
> If
> >>>> so, are there any limitations on how many simultaneous signals they
> can
> >>>> use? Can they operate from more than one county at the same time? How
> >>>> should their logs be submitted?
> >>>> This question came to me as I was doing some outreach to POTA
> operators
> >>>> in
> >>>> the southern part of the state. I tried looking at the archives and
> there
> >>>> isn't any really clear guidance.
> >>>> 73,
> >>>> Mark AC9VC
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