Re:Signing /QRP

[g3ymc]

On 12 Jun 2007 at 4:03, GM4SLV wrote:

> As far as I can read in our regs there's nothing to prevent adding
> /QRP to one's callsign. As long as your "basic" call is given
> correctly then anything else is allowed in a QSO - tagging /QRP to the
> end seems to me to be just part of the rest of the QSO. It's splitting
> hairs to worry about the difference between "GM4SLV/QRP" and
> "GM4SLV<space>QRP" and (when I'm sending!!) "GM4SLV<might be a space,
> might not be who can tell>/QRP"

But I see the comment earlier that US FCC licences specifically have
a clause allowing you to add your self assigned suffixes, which does
indicate it is legal in the USA. I know of no other licence
administration which has this and it is certainly not the case in the
UK. The only suffixes our standard licence allows (and which is now
optional) are /P, /A and /M - and if you have the appropriate licence
/MM and /AM (but aeronautical mobile is to all intents and purposes
never licenseable in the UK). Any other suffixes are by implication
not allowed.

I now have 220 countries worked on QRP and have NEVER put a /QRP on
my call. I only ever say G3YMC QRP (no /) towards the end of a QSO
with another QRP station, and normally don't even mention that I am
QRP until well into the QSO when I give details of the rig. It is
absolutely never justified in contests/pileups and as far as I am
concerned /QRP is never part of any callsign and never gets logged or
acknowledged by me.

As for calling weak signals and hoping they will come back, I have
just had three QSOs with FY/G3SXW and FY/G3TXF. In each case their
signal was just above the noise and I would normally never even think
it worth calling. But since I know Roger and Nigel I decided to have
a go. In each case he came back after just one or two calls through
the pileup (and the usual 599...). Never underrate your ability to
work weak stations on QRP...

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com

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[Marc G0AZS]

> just had three QSOs with FY/G3SXW and FY/G3TXF. In each case their
> signal was just above the noise and I would normally never even think
> it worth calling. But since I know Roger and Nigel I decided to have
> a go. In each case he came back after just one or two calls through
> the pileup (and the usual 599...). Never underrate your ability to
> work weak stations on QRP...

...and of course Roger is using his K2 isn't he? So he will hear you! :-)

73 Marc G0AZS
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[Jozef Hand-Boniakowski]

Simply put: when I call CQ and I have multiple stations respond, I give
preference to the station that is the weakest or who signs /QRP which is
not always one and the same.

Jozef WB2MIC

Dave Sergeant wrote:

> On 12 Jun 2007 at 4:03, GM4SLV wrote:
>
>  
>> As far as I can read in our regs there's nothing to prevent adding
>> /QRP to one's callsign. As long as your "basic" call is given
>> correctly then anything else is allowed in a QSO - tagging /QRP to the
>> end seems to me to be just part of the rest of the QSO. It's splitting
>> hairs to worry about the difference between "GM4SLV/QRP" and
>> "GM4SLV<space>QRP" and (when I'm sending!!) "GM4SLV<might be a space,
>> might not be who can tell>/QRP"
>>    
>
> But I see the comment earlier that US FCC licences specifically have
> a clause allowing you to add your self assigned suffixes, which does
> indicate it is legal in the USA. I know of no other licence
> administration which has this and it is certainly not the case in the
> UK. The only suffixes our standard licence allows (and which is now
> optional) are /P, /A and /M - and if you have the appropriate licence
> /MM and /AM (but aeronautical mobile is to all intents and purposes
> never licenseable in the UK). Any other suffixes are by implication
> not allowed.
>
> I now have 220 countries worked on QRP and have NEVER put a /QRP on
> my call. I only ever say G3YMC QRP (no /) towards the end of a QSO
> with another QRP station, and normally don't even mention that I am
> QRP until well into the QSO when I give details of the rig. It is
> absolutely never justified in contests/pileups and as far as I am
> concerned /QRP is never part of any callsign and never gets logged or
> acknowledged by me.
>
> As for calling weak signals and hoping they will come back, I have
> just had three QSOs with FY/G3SXW and FY/G3TXF. In each case their
> signal was just above the noise and I would normally never even think
> it worth calling. But since I know Roger and Nigel I decided to have
> a go. In each case he came back after just one or two calls through
> the pileup (and the usual 599...). Never underrate your ability to
> work weak stations on QRP...
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
> http://www.davesergeant.com
>
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[Julian, G4ILO]

On 6/12/07, Jozef Hand-Boniakowski <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Simply put: when I call CQ and I have multiple stations respond, I give
> preference to the station that is the weakest or who signs /QRP which is
> not always one and the same.

Which to my mind negates Dave's statement...

> It is
> > absolutely never justified in contests/pileups

If it helps get you the contact, then it is justified. On CW, there is
probably no benefit, but on phone, the DX may hear "QRP" when they
don't make out "ILO" or "YMC".
--
Julian, G4ILO
G4ILO's Shack: www.g4ilo.com
K2 s/n: 392  K3 s/n: ???
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