Dave Patton asked me to pass this along to
the ODV list.
Harold
Harold Kramer, WJ1B
Chief Operating Officer
ARRL - The national association for
Amateur Radio
860 594 0220
hkramer@arrl.org
From: Patton, David NN1N
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008
3:49 PM
To:
Subject: FJ/PH2AM
FJ/OH2AM
This operation by OH2BH and OH0XX was conducted under CEPT
Recommendation T/R 61-01. This Recommendation makes it possible for radio
amateurs from CEPT countries (and certain non-CEPT countries) to operate in other
CEPT countries without obtaining an individual temporary license from the
visited CEPT country.
Complaints were received from several individuals. The main thrust of
the complaints is that the operators used a club call for which Laine is
station trustee, rather than their individual callsigns.
The intention of the operators in using a single callsign was to limit
the number of duplicate contacts. Many DXpeditions use club or special-issue
callsigns for this reason. The Recommendation makes no mention of club
callsigns but says that the visiting license holder “must use his
national call sign preceded by the call sign prefix of the visited
country.” Other operations using club callsigns from French territory,
including in the
Since the question was raised, checking with various CEPT
administrations and with the European Radiocommunication Office (ERO) has
revealed different views regarding the use of club callsigns under the
Recommendation. The ERO observes that the use of a club callsign could prevent
an administration from determining whether a particular operator is qualified
and concludes, “Club members, including the holder of the club call sign,
should use their national personal call signs when abroad.”
In the case of FJ/OH2AM, the two operators clearly were qualified to
operate in St Barthelemy under the Recommendation. They utilized a call
authorized to them by their national authority. The purpose of a radio station
callsign is to identify the administration and the licensee responsible for the
operation of the station. The use of FJ/OH2AM rather than FJ/OH2BH and FJ/OH0XX
did not thwart this purpose.
10 January, 2008