Notification
1A4 Recall the requirements for station identification.
Note: For the purposes of the examination this includes identifying when there is a change of:
SUMMARY
The station must be identified at all times by voice or mode of operation such as cw or rtty as frequently as is practically possible during transmissions.
This is easily done giving out your callsign. For example if you were out walking in Northern Ireland you could identify with a callsign like MI7XYZ/P.
Remember that the "I" in that call is the Regional Locator. You must identify your station on your first transmission such as when calling CQ, or replying to another station that called CQ.
After making contact with another station and you both decide to move frequency, then you must both identify again on the new frequency.
Similarly you must identify again after changing mode from e.g. FM to SSB.
The Licensee, shall transmit the Call sign specified in the Licence and any Modifier applicable under the provisions of this Licence:
If you are being
supervised and you change supervisors then you must identify this by
saying you have changed supervisor and give the supervisor's call
sign if you are using a club's call sign.
Should you change
your location into a different Regional Secondary Locator then again you
must identify your self and if under supervision advising that is the
case.
So think carefully
that :-
(a) The station is clearly identifiable at all times;
(b) The callsign is transmitted as frequently as is practicable during transmissions;
(c) The callsign is given in voice or other appropriate format consistent with the mode of operation;
(d) When calling CQ it is necessary to give your call sign for two reasons. Firstly because the Licence requires your station to be 'identifiable at all times' and secondly because the person answering, will want to know who you are and you will want to know they are replying to you by including your call sign in their reply.
Thus you do not have to start and finish an over with your callsign but it is polite to do so BUT not a requirement of your licence and NOT part of the exam
Modifiers are the Regional Secondary Locators as outlined above and modifiers.
Main Station Address means the main station address stated in the Licence;
A typical exam question might be:
What are the requirements for Station Identification ?
Now the answers may not necessarily be exactly what is given in the licence as in (a) (b) and (c) above but may well be the question writer's interpretation of the licence conditions but meaning the same.
Thus:
The station is clearly identifiable at all times might be written as the station is identified regularly
The callsign is transmitted as frequently as is practicable during transmissions might be written as the station is to be identified frequently during overs
The callsign is given in voice or other appropriate format consistent with the mode of operation might be written as The callsign is given in voice or in another mode of operation
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