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WHAT?    That would cost postage!    We have 235,385,823,556,235,765 illegals and 28 foreign countries to support with "foreign aid".  No way you're getting the US Government to waste postage on YOU, taxpayer.  Joey Biden doesn't do ANYTHING for the taxpaying American.
 
BOHICA
 

As long as you identify with callsign every 15 minutes, you're legal.

"Hey Fred this is dad" is perfectly legal so long as you throw your callsign out there every 15 minutes.

WRTS881/1 this is WRTS881/2 is too anal.  Talk to your family like you normally would, just include a callsign every 15 minutes.

Cold and icky handshakes are OK if they're on the square and level.  ;)

If I'm on a handheld  and my wife is at home with a radio, I say "Mobile to base" after our call sign.
But, I'm old and set in my ways. Now, get off my lawn.

There is nothing to establish.. Talk to whoever you need to talk to, however you want.  The FCCs says to announce your callsign every 15 minutes and refrain from profanity but since they dont bother to enforce the rules, it doesn't really matter.

As long as you identify with callsign every 15 minutes, you're legal.

"Hey Fred this is dad" is perfectly legal so long as you throw your callsign out there every 15 minutes.

WRTS881/1 this is WRTS881/2 is too anal.  Talk to your family like you normally would, just include a callsign every 15 minutes.

As long as you identify with callsign every 15 minutes, you're legal.

"Hey Fred this is dad" is perfectly legal so long as you throw your callsign out there every 15 minutes.

WRTS881/1 this is WRTS881/2 is too anal.  Talk to your family like you normally would, just include a callsign every 15 minutes.

WOW!  NOTARUBICON replied to one of my comments!

It's like meeting Elvis and shaking his hand!
Love all your videos on Rumble, Sir.
BRB...I gotta print this page out so I can frame it and hang it on the wall of my shack!    ❤️

Do I get a "GMRS PATROL" badge with my H.A.M. call sign on it and an orange vest?

WHAT?    That would cost postage!    We have 235,385,823,556,235,765 illegals and 28 foreign countries to support with "foreign aid".  No way you're getting the US Government to waste postage on YOU, taxpayer.  Joey Biden doesn't do ANYTHING for the taxpaying American.
 
BOHICA
 

WHAT?    That would cost postage!    We have 235,385,823,556,235,765 illegals and 28 foreign countries to support with "foreign aid".  No way you're getting the US Government to waste postage on YOU, taxpayer.  Joey Biden doesn't do ANYTHING for the taxpaying American.
 
BOHICA
 

As long as you identify with callsign every 15 minutes, you're legal.

"Hey Fred this is dad" is perfectly legal so long as you throw your callsign out there every 15 minutes.

WRTS881/1 this is WRTS881/2 is too anal.  Talk to your family like you normally would, just include a callsign every 15 minutes.

As long as you identify with callsign every 15 minutes, you're legal.

"Hey Fred this is dad" is perfectly legal so long as you throw your callsign out there every 15 minutes.

WRTS881/1 this is WRTS881/2 is too anal.  Talk to your family like you normally would, just include a callsign every 15 minutes.

As long as you identify with callsign every 15 minutes, you're legal.

"Hey Fred this is dad" is perfectly legal so long as you throw your callsign out there every 15 minutes.

WRTS881/1 this is WRTS881/2 is too anal.  Talk to your family like you normally would, just include a callsign every 15 minutes.

I used two pieces of 10-foot iron pipe joined with a threaded coupler in the middle.  But I didn't cement it directly in the concrete. I cemented two pieces of pipe iron and used two bolts.  That way if I need to do maint. on the antenna or for hurricanes, I can take the top bolt out and lay the mast down.  So far it's been up 3 years with no issues. 
On the top is a fan dipole I made, on a piece of PVC pipe at 26 feet. 

 

I used two pieces of 10-foot iron pipe joined with a threaded coupler in the middle.  But I didn't cement it directly in the concrete. I cemented two pieces of pipe iron and used two bolts.  That way if I need to do maint. on the antenna or for hurricanes, I can take the top bolt out and lay the mast down.  So far it's been up 3 years with no issues. 
On the top is a fan dipole I made, on a piece of PVC pipe at 26 feet. 

 

30 meters wavelength is 10 MHz frequency.

I wouldn't bother.  I heard on the 40 meter net he has a small jeep.    😃

Obviously it is an acronym because "ham" would not make any sense. H.A.M. makes more sense to anyone with a good grasp of talking english good.

I find throughout the day folks use all manner of methods of identifying themselves to include just using the last 3 numbers of the call sign as a conversation unfolds....Not having a problem keeping up with chit chat....

There's a little-known FCC regulation concerning a kosher license. It's so little-known, in fact, that no one knows about it.

After years in the military after having NATO beat into my skull...Alpha Bravo, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

Then I left the military and went into law enforcement where NATO was "frowned upon" and APCO required .. Adam Boy, William Tom Frank.

Now I get beat up by "some sad people" for often inadvertently mixing the two ... Alpha Boy I mean Bravo, William I mean Whiskey Tango Frank, I mean Foxtrot.

Just what I need.  Another phonetic alphabet.
 

I'm Jewish.  We don't get ham licenses.  That's a sin.

You’re entitled to your opinion, as am I.

I think guys who keep keying up over and over, holding the air for 10-15 seconds of nothing but giggles, farts, or music, and each time cycling through their Roger beeps are just being assclowns. Has nothing to do with “some people” or sad hams, it’s just the basic rule of life - “don’t be a dick”.

If that’s lost on you it’s ok.

Some sad people get emotionally nuked when you do anything that doesn't conform strictly to what they've been taught and what they think they understand of the rules.

Case in point. A few years ago some of my buddies and I were scuba diving about 40 miles off the NC Coast when a mayday came over the Marine VHF during our surface interval between dives.  After the caller made repeated maydays with no response it was obvious no one could hear his mayday so I grabbed the Marine VHF and called USCG.   Caller could hear USCG but USCG couldn't hear the caller.  So when USCG would ask a question, he'd reply, then I'd relay his reply to USCG.  USCG gave him a phone # to call but he said he had no cell service on his phone that far offshore.  I acted as relay for about 20 minutes between him and USCG.
Eventually USCG asked me to identify myself, and since there's 243,924,992 "Anthony Jones" in North Carolina, and since our boat was not USCG registered, I gave them my name and my ham call sign.  My logic was, the USCG certainly has access to FCC records if they need to find me in the future, and since the call sign is linked to me by name, address, and SSN, it is a de facto positive identification.  According to the guy, his boat was taking on water, his engine wouldn't start, and that was a valid emergency, not just a "we're out of gas" scenario.  Eventually the USCG found the guys and rescued them.

But when the sad people on a certain world largest ham radio forum heard I had used a ham call sign on Marine VHF...you guessed it...I was told I had committed a crime, told I was gonna get that 134,222,783,446,552 gazillion dollar fine from the FCC's, I was going to prison, the FCC's were going to confiscate my radio equipment, etc.   The sad people on the worlds largest ham forum roasted me for days for being a "bad ham" who didn't deserve to own a radio.  Apparently I ruined their lives by using a ham call sign on Marine VHF during a mayday call.

When the commander at USCG Fort Macon called me a few days later to thank me for being a relay and to tell me they found the guy and he was safe, I mentioned it to him, just to make sure that I hadn't overlooked some important detail in my radio education so I wouldn't get the 134,222,783,446,552 gazillion dollar fine from the FCC's and spend 20 years in prison like the sad people said.  When his letter arrived in the mail I took a photo and posted it to the three-letter sad people forum.  The letter said what I and anyone with an IQ over 20 already knew...

"When on ham radio you'd use your ham call sign.
When on Marine VHF you'd use your vessel name.
But in an emergency all of the rules are suspended and none of the rules matter."

I got the largest orgasm of my life posting that letter on the three-letter sad people forum. 

So yeah, if sad people will whine about saving a life, they'll certainly whine over phonetics. Or anything else they can find to argue about.  If you didn't know, you'd think the FCC's awarded medals or something for filing complaints over trivial BS.