Graham,
What is permitted depends on who your licensing authority is.
In the UK (unless things have changed recently):
- Aeronautical Mobile is not permitted,
- /A for Alternative Address has been reinstated, presumably to distinguish
operation at a postal address other than the one on one's licence from Portable
(at a location not associated with a postal address). Presumably it also makes
life easier for officialdom, although I recall operating away from home when
newly licensed and receiving a telephone call from the local GPO radio section
asking me to drop the “/A” as it was confusing their monitoring station,
- as far as I know the Maritime Mobile suffix (/MM) is still required if you
are operating in tidal waters,
- I do not know whether /B is officially recognised.
Readers please correct me where I got it wrong.
John F5VLF/G3PAI
On 26 May 2012, at 01:21CEST, Graham wrote:
> Q What are the permitted suffixes to the call these days ?
>
> Are /P Portable /M Mobile /B Beacon , Now the only
> suffixes in use ?
>
> The MM maritime mobile and AM Aeronautical Mobile are now grouped
> as / M ?
> and /A alternative is no longer valid ?
>
> Tnx -G.
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