[PBARC] Station identification

[WOLF, EARNEST G]

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I got this from Carl and thought I would share with the group.

73,
glenn 


Hello DXers:

A reader just called to my attention an item recently posted on the ARRL web site. Since it concerns Station Identification you might want to at least read, if not respond accordingly.

 

PLEASE NOTE: The following is a direct quote from the ARRL web site: 

 

FCC invites comments on two Amateur Radio rule making petitions (Oct 31, 2006) -- The FCC has invited comments on two Amateur Radio-related petitions for rule making. Both petitioners seek changes in the FCC's Part 97 Amateur Service station identification rules, specifically §97.119(a). That rule now requires stations to identify "at the end of each communication, and at least every ten minutes during a communication . . ." RM-11346, filed December 9, 2005, by Murray Green, K3BEQ, would raise the required ID interval to 30 minutes as well as at the end of each communication. A second petition, RM-11347, filed May 19, 2006, by Glenn Zook, K9STH, would revise §97.119(a) to more closely resemble the old FCC §12.82(a) Transmission of call signs rule. Zook proposes requiring radio amateurs to transmit the call sign(s) of stations with which they are in communication plus their own call sign at the start and end of each single transmission or of a series of transmissions between stations in communication "each transmission of which is of less than three minutes' duration," at least every 10 minutes during a series of transmissions between stations in communication, and at least every 10 minutes during any single transmission more than 10 minutes long. Comments on these petitions are due by November 29. Interested parties may file using the FCC's Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS).

73,

Carl, N4AA