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On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:08:33PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> > " My hobbies are technical, nerdy, or intellectual. I'm a licensed |
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> > amateur radio operator. My call sign is KB5KZZ. |
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> i guess it's supposed to sound like a radio station name then |
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The callsign is a name issued by a relevant authority (in my case, the |
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ACMA, in Chris' case, the FCC) to operators of radio transmitters so |
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that they can identify those stations for administrative purposes. |
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Commercial broadcast stations have callsigns too, e.g. 4QG operates from |
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Bald Hills on 792kHz AM, most locally would know it as "ABC Radio |
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National". (And it's got a sister station at the same locality, 4QR at |
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612kHz, locally known as "ABC Local Radio".) |
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Often commercial stations are known by another name. e.g. 4MMM |
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(104.5MHz) here in Brisbane just refer to themselves as "Triple M". |
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Amateur stations however must identify using the callsign they're issued |
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when on-air. ACMA laws require me (and others with amateur licenses in |
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Australia) to identify when initiating contact, and every 10 minutes |
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afterwards until we go off-air. Not much different to the other paying |
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customers of the air space. |
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Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) .'''. |
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Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer '.'` : |
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'.' |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter :.' |
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I haven't lost my mind... |
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...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. |