<div>Outros a estragarem o que estava bem feito. Afinal não é só nos açores!!</div>
<div>73's</div>
<div>CT1GFK, Toze<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/23 João Gonçalves Costa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joao.a.costa@ctt.pt">joao.a.costa@ctt.pt</a>></span><br>
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<h1>VK9C, L, M, N, W & X deleted from DX equation</h1>
<p><font face="Tahoma">The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has decided to discontinue the use of a <strong>VK9 callsign suffix letter</strong> to denote each of the six Australian external territories, each a DX entity.</font></p>
<p><font face="Tahoma">The long-standing prefixes included VK9C for Cocos (Keeling) Island, VK9L Lord Howe Island, VK9M Mellish Reef, VK9N Norfolk Island, VK9W Willis Island and VK9X Christmas Island.</font></p>
<p><font face="Tahoma">The Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA), under its role of providing ham radio licence examinations and issuing amateur certificates of proficiency, also recommends each and every amateur radio callsign issued by the ACMA.</font></p>
<p><font face="Tahoma">On taking on new roles earlier this year it began to query the practices in relation to VK9 callsigns, then consulted the amateur radio community and came to the view that it could not support having a suffix letter as a geographic identifier in VK9 callsigns.</font></p>
<p><font face="Tahoma">The ACMA itself has not stuck with the VK9 callsign tradition over the years when issuing licences and some DXers requested a callsign contrary to the historic or DXCC list suffix block.</font></p>
<p><font face="Tahoma">VK9Y has also been used for Cocos and VK9Z for Mellish, and often, particularly recently, if a VK9 callsign was requested it would be issued. </font></p>
<p><font face="Tahoma">The ACMA having not rigidly applied its own VK9 callsign policy, and wanting to eliminate where-ever possible administrative tasks related to the amateur radio service, decided that the historic VK9 callsigns are a thing of the past.</font></p>
<p><font face="Tahoma">From 1 November, callsigns for the VK9 DX entities will fall in line with the practice for issuing callsigns for all other VK call areas, with the suffix only to denoting the class of licence issued – Advanced, Standard or Foundation.</font></p>
<p><font face="Tahoma">Licences with a VK9 callsign issued to visiting overseas radio amateurs will only be for a short-term if requested or for a maximum 12 months period, and not be automatically renewed.</font></p>
<p><font face="Tahoma">A VK ham or visiting radio amateur does not necessarily require a VK9 callsign, although most do for DXing, contesting or QSLing purposes.</font></p>
<p><font face="Tahoma">Under the provisions of the Amateur Licence Conditions Determination, portable operation is permitted with a radio amateur using their home callsign /VK9 and stating their location.</font></p>
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<p><em><strong><font face="Tahoma">Jim Linton VK3PC</font></strong></em><br><br></p></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>CLUSTER mailing list<br><a href="mailto:CLUSTER@radio-amador.net">CLUSTER@radio-amador.net</a><br>
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<div></div><br>-- <br>Antonio Guerreiro<br><a href="http://ct1gfk.algarvedx.com">http://ct1gfk.algarvedx.com</a><br><br>DPRN Award Manager <a href="http://algarvedx.com/dprn">http://algarvedx.com/dprn</a><br>