J8/PE1IGM(St. Vincent) on 20m USB!!!
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Harm Brink
Maritime mobile, no fixed adress or box.
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20130323 0032UTC 14212.5kHz J8/PE1IGM
Date : 22/Mar/2013 0032UTC
Freq : 14212.5kHz USB
Rig : SDR(PI4THT)
ANT : Mini-Whip(PAØRDT)
PC recording
Harm (and his wife Lizzy) are maritime mobile. Currently (2011) they are in the Caribbean.
QSL via E-qsl on request. QSL (direct, buro, paypal) via
PA3C
Direct cards:
SASE + € 1 (euro) or $2 (Europe)
or $2 (outside Europe). Paypal payment possible. No IRC.
Cards are9*14 cmso sent me the correct SASE otherwise I have to cut the card :-((
Cards via buro can be requested via mail p-a-3-c-@amsat.org (delete -), put date/time/freq/mode in your mail.
Any questions? You can send me email via [p-a-3-c-]@amsat.org
73, de PA3C Aart
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All contacts are made when we are on anchor in a bay or harbor.
Several bays where we anchoring are surrounded by land and in many cases (like St. Georges, Grenada Port Lois Marina J3 and Bequia J8) we are only 7 feet away from the dock.
Why has this qso no value for the DXCC award?
The ARRL has an rule (NR8):
8. All stations contacted must be "land stations." Contacts with ships and boats, anchored or under way, and airborne aircraft, cannot be counted. For the purposes of this award, remote control operating points must also be land based. Exception: Permanently docked exhibition ships, such as the Queen Mary and other historic ships will be considered land based.
So if I had moved my station from the boat to the concrete dock 7 feet away a qso has a value for the DXCC, but I refuse to do so as this rule is, in my opinion, a useless stupid rule, which only may have value on uninhibited islands and reefs.
Rule 8 was put into place to prevent cheating after some incidents that happened in the 70’s, so 40 !!!!! years ago, so in my opinion it is time to change this rule.
Therefore I ask you to complain against this rule by the ARRL.
A lot of complains will maybe change this rule into one that gives value to qso's with boats on anchor in a anchorage or bay, or in the harbor at a dock.
Why do I use J3 or J8 / PE1IGM and not /PE1IGM/MM?
These are the FCC rules on shipboard and aircraft operation:
§97.11 Stations aboard ships or aircraft.
(a) The installation and operation of an amateur station on a ship or aircraft must be approved by the master of the ship or pilot in command of the aircraft.
(b) The station must be separate from and independent of all other radio apparatus installed on the ship or aircraft, except a common antenna may be shared with a voluntary ship radio installation. The station's transmissions must not cause interference to any other apparatus installed on the ship or aircraft.
(c) The station must not constitute a hazard to the safety of life or property. For a station aboard an aircraft, the apparatus shall not be operated while the aircraft is operating under Instrument Flight Rules, as defined by the FAA, unless the station has been found to comply with all applicable FAA Rules.
As for identification this area seems vague and the FCC does not specify how to identify.
You are Maritime Mobile if your vessel isoutside the continental limitsof a country. More than 12 Miles offshore. You are not Maritime Mobile sailing in the Great Lakes, up some river in the middle of ????, etc.
Maritime mobile operation is defined as operating a transmitter that is located on any vessel at sea. This means any manned structure afloat outside of the high water mark. Operating on vessels on inland waterways is defined as mobile working, and so requires /M to be added to the call sign, not /MM as for maritime mobile operation.
So on anchor it is not allowed to use /MM and it should be /PE1IGM/M, and /M has a value for the DXCC but /boat M(obile) not.
In the pile up it is very confusing when I use /M and I have to say "hello guys I am /M but this connection has according to article NR8 no value for the DXCC.
Therefore I just use /PE1IGM.
