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![]() In the old days, a foreign amateur operating in the US, or a US amateur operating in a foreign country, would use his own call sign, a slant bar, and the prefix of the country or location in which he is operating, e.g. "G5ABC/W1". Somewhere along the way that got changed so that the prefix is now inserted ahead of the call sign instead of after, e.g. "W1/G5ABC". When did that rule change go into effect? It must have been sometime during the 1990's when I was inactive on ham radio ... one of the many rule changes that surprised me when I got back into it in 2001, such as the 5 WPM code requirement for Extras for whom it used to be 20 WPM... |
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