Re: [gentoo-project] New Developer: Christopher "cbrannon" Brannon

[Stuart Longland]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:08:33PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Markos Chandras wrote:
> > " My hobbies are technical, nerdy, or intellectual.  I'm a licensed
> > amateur radio operator.  My call sign is KB5KZZ.
>
> i guess it's supposed to sound like a radio station name then

The callsign is a name issued by a relevant authority (in my case, the
ACMA, in Chris' case, the FCC) to operators of radio transmitters so
that they can identify those stations for administrative purposes.

Commercial broadcast stations have callsigns too, e.g. 4QG operates from
Bald Hills on 792kHz AM, most locally would know it as "ABC Radio
National".  (And it's got a sister station at the same locality, 4QR at
612kHz, locally known as "ABC Local Radio".)

Often commercial stations are known by another name.  e.g. 4MMM
(104.5MHz) here in Brisbane just refer to themselves as "Triple M".

Amateur stations however must identify using the callsign they're issued
when on-air.  ACMA laws require me (and others with amateur licenses in
Australia) to identify when initiating contact, and every 10 minutes
afterwards until we go off-air.  Not much different to the other paying
customers of the air space.
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