portugal contact demanding call sign

[123kid]

275550

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

Are you sure the Portuguese station's callsign did not start with Charlie-Tango followed by a number?

 

[Zman]

Wouldn't it be easier to just get your ham license and have a REAL CALL SIGN that nobody else has? Just asking..... Im not much into ham anymore, but ya know...............

 

[Se7en]

Kilo Charley four tango Victor zulu ten ten ten ten lmao

 

[123kid]

Isnt easier to say hey im in "country state" and have a easy to remember title like 3 or four numbers instead of 50 words that by the time your done saying them your signal faded.

 

[mechanic]

International Radio DX Group - 11 meter section and G.R.I. ALFA TANGO

73 mechanic

 

[HomerBB]

I have been listening on the Ham bands some, and to tell you the truth, most of them rattle their calls so rapidly I have no idea what they said. I have never been a speed reader, and worse yet, neither a speed hearer. I sit with pen in hand, cocked for the quick draw like a western gunslinger, but I am not quick enough. OTOH, I have no trouble with the SSB calls - division, club, number. It is simpler for me just due to the structure. I find there to be a nearly unlimited manner of constructs of the ham calls -

N8BHL
KN4AQ
7J1AJH
G4TUT
W2CYK
W5JDX

as a sampling of sone genuine Amateur call signs, and it gets even worse.
I realize those familiar recognize countries of origin in those calls, but they are a mouthful of phonetic sounds when used.

So, to the point of getting a license and making it simple, those are mutually exclusive expectations.

2 Charlie Tango 183, or
2 Whiskey Romeo 183
are far less complex a mouthful than

November 8 Bravo Hotel Lima
Kilo November 4 Alpha Quebec
7 Juliet 1 Alpha Juliet Hotel
Golf 4 Tango Uniform Tango
etc.

Getting a license is not a bad idea, but to simplify the call is not about to happen by doing so.

 

[n0zna]

i was on 11mtr ssb from 1970 till 1993 and got my lic...im am humored by the pirates i hear on all the bands,i was on 28420usb with a bunch of friends one day,and had a person come in with two letter and three numbers and asked where we where...hehe i told him we where all in MIZZO and you need to put your radio back on 27420 instead of 28420...we had about four or five new hams that had there lic less than a few weeks and they thought it was funny...i told them to get use to it...i always check a call when i hear it the 1st time or so,i found alot of sk calls used...73 de JW

 

[Zman]

I have been listening on the Ham bands some, and to tell you the truth, most of them rattle their calls so rapidly I have no idea what they said. Ya ever try to copy them in super high speed code???? WHEW!!!!!

 

[Zman]

i was on 11mtr ssb from 1970 till 1993 and got my lic...im am humored by the pirates i hear on all the bands,i was on 28420usb with a bunch of friends one day,and had a person come in with two letter and three numbers and asked where we where...hehe i told him we where all in MIZZO and you need to put your radio back on 27420 instead of 28420...we had about four or five new hams that had there lic less than a few weeks and they thought it was funny...i told them to get use to it...i always check a call when i hear it the 1st time or so,i found alot of sk calls used...73 de JW

A month or so ago i heard a couple of truckers on 28.405 bragging about having radios that can "go up real high in channels". I almost said something but i didnt.

 

[Mudfoot]

A month or so ago i heard a couple of truckers on 28.405 bragging about having radios that can "go up real high in channels". I almost said something but i didnt.

And that was the correct thing to do..

 

[n0zna]

a couple of friends of mine and i ran on 28345usb when some lids where on am with echos and roger beeps...they where not on long...73 de JW

 

[IMD262]

Isnt easier to say hey im in "country state" and have a easy to remember title like 3 or four numbers instead of 50 words that by the time your done saying them your signal faded.

si fueris Rōmae, Rōmānō vīvitō mōre; si fueris alibī, vīvitō sicut ibi

 

[HomerBB]

si fueris Rōmae, Rōmānō vīvitō mōre; si fueris alibī, vīvitō sicut ibi

. . . or sumthin'

 

[RatsoW8]

This post is about as exciting as watching grass grow.