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From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@cloud.net.au>
To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: callsign limit
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 21:19:19 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060531111919.GA22980@cloud.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <620c90570605310403o1e4b94bcgf4ab922ef26983e4@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 07:03:50AM -0400, Chuck Hast wrote:
> On 5/31/06, Hamish Moffatt <hamish@cloud.net.au> wrote:
> >Good question. AX.25 callsigns are at most 6 characters long, so you
> >won't be able to use those callsigns on the air.
> 
> I believe (I maybe taking one in the wind but so far my digging around the
> web would show this correct) that the ITU format for amateur calls is a max-
> imum of 6 alpha-numerics, 

I think that's no longer true as of WRC 2003. It's a bit late to change
AX.25 though!

> This of course does not set a minimum size as long as the national info is
> displayed, so in this country (USA a K4A is possible, I believe in AUS,
> you can have say a VK2A) calls as short as 2X1 are possible.

Actually 2X1 calls aren't issued. Only 2X2, 2X3 and now 2X4.

Hamish
-- 
Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-31 11:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-31  9:27 callsign limit stephen
2006-05-31  9:37 ` Hamish Moffatt
2006-05-31 11:03   ` Chuck Hast
2006-05-31 11:19     ` Hamish Moffatt [this message]
2006-06-01  1:40       ` Ralf Baechle DL5RB
2006-06-01 12:04         ` David D. Hagood
2006-06-01 13:25           ` Ralf Baechle DL5RB
2006-06-01 14:31           ` Curt, WE7U
2006-06-01 15:08             ` Ralf Baechle DL5RB
2006-06-01 15:15               ` Curt, WE7U
2006-06-01 18:52                 ` Ralf Baechle DL5RB
2006-06-01 19:33                   ` Thomas Sailer
2006-06-02  2:51               ` Kevin Dawson
2006-06-02  3:47                 ` Hamish Moffatt
2006-05-31 13:05     ` Geoff Blake
2006-06-01 10:34   ` stephen
2006-06-01 10:54     ` Chuck Hast
2006-06-01 13:47       ` Hamish Moffatt
2006-06-01 14:00         ` Geoff Blake
2006-05-31 13:02 ` Matti Aarnio
2006-05-31 13:12   ` Thomas Sailer
2006-05-31 14:02     ` Matti Aarnio
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-31 12:12 IT3 Stuart Blake Tener
2006-05-31 12:41 ` Chuck Hast
2006-05-31 13:15 ` Robert Steinhäußer
2006-05-31 14:57   ` Bob Nielsen

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