Linux-Hams archive - August 1999: Re: CEPT callsigns

Re: CEPT callsigns

Geoff Blake (sbi@nmhschool.org)
Sat, 31 Jul 1999 20:14:27 +0100 (BST)


On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Riley Williams wrote:

> Also note that the following is a perfectly valid callsign which also
> doesn't fit in the AX.25 spcification:
>
> PA/GM7GOD/MM
>
> That is the callsign that *I* would have to use if operating from a
> ship sailing in tidal waters claimed by the Netherlands. There was
> also the following not that long ago...

Are you certain that in Dutch (tidal) waters, you shouldn't use G7GOD/MM.
Certainly my marine call MGWK6 should be used, and as you presumeably will
be operating from a British Registered vessel.....

(Sorry if this isn't Linux, but it is 'hams')

Geoff

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