Hans K0HB wrote:




Whatever works for you. The FCC has implicitly acknowledged that we
are a mobile society and that we become 'attached' to our callsigns
sort of as a second name, so changing calls just because we've moved
makes no more sense than changing our name just because we've moved.


Never quite understood it, but it used to be that a callsign belonged to
the "station" and
not the operator, or something like that. Once it happened many years
ago that two
brothers got licenses but the FCC gave out only one callsign, as they
used the same
"station". The FCC recently decided to change that theory to one that
more closely
matches the way hams think of their callsigns. That a ham "owns" a
callsign and uses
it on whatever ham equipment he happens to be using at the moment. If I
borrow your
ham shack, I would still use my callsign. Once I'm satisfied that your
equipment works
correctly. "Looks like a kenwood TS440SAT, receives like one, and seems
to transmit
like it should."