callsign limit
Mr. Hast, et alia:
Though only Canada has started issuing 2x4's as far as I know.
While special event stations (even for Packet) are able to get 2x1 callsigns in the United States. Jordon also issued 1x1 calls too.
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IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USN(RC), N3GWG Beverly Hills, CA mobile: (310) 358-0202 Nextel: 124*233172*14 e-mail: [email protected]
Quoted 6 lines · On 5/31/06, IT3 Stuart Blake Tener <[email protected]> wrote:
Mr. Hast, et alia:
Though only Canada has started issuing 2x4's as far as I know.
While special event stations (even for Packet) are able to get 2x1 callsigns in the United States. Jordon also issued 1x1 calls too.
Opps, guess that is going to give someone who has a 2x4 call a problem if they try to use packet. I did not realize that ITU had changed the format, will have to dig it up and see what they say.
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Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- To paraphrase my flight instructor; "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn and twisted metal."
Hi!
We're no longer on a linux subject (linux-hams), but I suppose enough here are interested.
Quoted 4 lines · On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:12:03PM +0000, IT3 Stuart Blake Tener wrote:
Though only Canada has started issuing 2x4's as far as I know.
While special event stations (even for Packet) are able to get 2x1 callsigns in the United States.
2x1 in the US aren't only for special events, see KA9Q etc. But I haven't seen other countries issuing 2x1 or 1xN (e.g. N9KBK) in the past. That seems to have changed recently.
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Jordon also issued 1x1 calls too.
Do you mean JY1 etc.? Using this terminology that would be a 2x0 ;-)
These special calls are becoming quite common in many countries now, also here in Germany, from 2x1s for contest/clubstations (e.g. DR6A) to the short-time stations during the soccer World Cup with calls like DR2006N and DQ2006J (which would be "2x1" as well).
Perhaps somebody could check which syntax is valid now? I don't know where to look. Was there any statement made on how calls longer than 6 chars are to be used on packet? Perhaps just use a different ID (which one?) and additionally set a beacon with the correct call in the data part? How do other modes (was it AMTOR?) handle this?
73, Robert
DL1NC/N9KBK
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Hi!
We're no longer on a linux subject (linux-hams), but I suppose enough here are interested.
Quoted 2 lines · On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:12:03PM +0000, IT3 Stuart Blake Tener wrote:
Though only Canada has started issuing 2x4's as far as I know.
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While special event stations (even for Packet) are able to get 2x1 callsigns in
the United States.2x1 in the US aren't only for special events, see KA9Q etc. But I haven't seen other countries issuing 2x1 or 1xN (e.g. N9KBK) in the past. That seems to have changed recently.
I think he meant 1X1 for special events. Many countries have 1XN callsigns (G, F, I, W, etc.)
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Jordon also issued 1x1 calls too.
Do you mean JY1 etc.? Using this terminology that would be a 2x0 ;-)
These special calls are becoming quite common in many countries now, also here in Germany, from 2x1s for contest/clubstations (e.g. DR6A) to the short-time stations during the soccer World Cup with calls like DR2006N and DQ2006J (which would be "2x1" as well).
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Perhaps somebody could check which syntax is valid now? I don't know where to look. Was there any statement made on how calls longer than 6 chars are to be used on packet? Perhaps just use a different ID (which one?) and additionally set a beacon with the correct call in the
data part? How do other modes (was it AMTOR?) handle this?
That is probably the best way (for now, at least). Although I haven't encountered it, I suspect that is the way it is handled by stations operating from other than their home country (using designators such as DL/W1AAA).
There may be a need for a change to AX.25. TAPR (as custodian of the AX.25 specification) has a mailing list which is already discussing this issue:
<https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ax25-layer2>.
73,
Bob, N7XY
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