[QCWA] QCWA's PRM - Dismissed By FCC

[Norm Gertz]

Received okay;  thank you.

Norm  K1AA


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> FYI,
>
> Ken Oelke - VE6AFO
> *********************************************
> QCWA
>
> The Quarter Century Wireless Association (QCWA) filed a PRM requesting 
> that
> Section 97.119(c) be amended to permit an Amateur Radio operator who is
> a "current or honorably discharged member of the United States military to
> include a unique indicator with the station's call sign identification
> announcement." Section 97.119(c) of the Commission's Rules permits the
> inclusion of indicators with the call sign during station identification,
> provided that no self-assigned indicator conflicts with any indicator
> specified by the Commission's rules or with any prefix assigned to another
> country.
>
> The QCWA, in support of their proposal, noted that "many Amateur Radio
> operators are serving or have served in the United States military, or 
> became
> Amateur Radio operators during or following their military training in
> communications and electronics, and it states that this proposal would 
> afford
> those individuals the option to advise others of their military service 
> when
> they identify their amateur stations on the air."
>
> Specifically, QCWA requested that the indicators AF, AA, NA, NM and ACG be
> reserved for use by current or honorably discharged members of the United
> States Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, respectively.
>
> The FCC dismissed this petition, saying that "Amateur Radio operators who 
> are
> current or honorably discharged members of the United States military 
> already
> are permitted to identify their stations in the way QCWA suggests. The 
> present
> rule permits a control operator to include an indicator with the call 
> sign,
> subject only to the limitation that a self-assigned indicator not conflict
> with any other indicators specified by the Commission's rules or with any
> prefix assigned to another country. We note that the indicators QCWA 
> suggests
> do not conflict with other indicator specified by the rules or with 
> another
> country's prefix. They therefore may be included as an indicator with a
> presently-assigned amateur station call sign."
>
> The Commission went on to say that the QCWA "seeks to regularize the use 
> of
> its proposed indicators to increase their recognition, the amateur 
> community
> may do so without any change to the amateur service rules." As such, the 
> FCC
> deemed such a rule change unnecessary and dismissed the QCWA's petition.
>
> The FCC concluded that these three PRM requests were unnecessary in light 
> of
> the existing rules, and do not warrant further consideration at this time.
>
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