{"id":1849,"date":"2020-04-07T11:13:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T14:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2020-04-07T11:13:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T14:13:37","slug":"special-call-sign-suffixes-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/07\/special-call-sign-suffixes-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Call Sign Suffixes in the US&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Use of Special Call Sign Suffixes in the US During COVID-19 Pandemic<\/h2>\n<div class=\"article\"><span class=\"date\">04\/06\/2020<\/span>Some countries have authorized selected radio amateurs or organizations to identify with longer-than-normal suffixes that relate to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as \u201cSTAYHOME.\u201d FCC Part 97 Amateur Radio Service rules do not provide for amateur call sign suffixes longer than three characters, but a potential workaround exists.<\/p>\n<p>As \u00a797.119(c) of the FCC\u2019s Amateur Radio Service rules states: \u201cOne or more indicators may be included with the call sign. Each indicator must be separated from the call sign by the slant mark (\/) or by any suitable word that denotes the slant mark. If an indicator is self-assigned, it must be included before, after, or both before and after, the call sign. No self-assigned indicator may conflict with any other indicator specified by the FCC Rules or with any prefix assigned to another country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While ARRL has no plans to sponsor or support an effort as an ARRL contest-based activity, licensees desiring to do this as a one-off stay-at-home event are welcome to do so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use of Special Call Sign Suffixes in the US During COVID-19 Pandemic 04\/06\/2020Some countries have authorized selected radio amateurs or organizations to identify with longer-than-normal suffixes that relate to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as \u201cSTAYHOME.\u201d FCC Part 97 Amateur Radio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/07\/special-call-sign-suffixes-in-the-us\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1850,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions\/1850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}