Hi, list!  

What we recommend to remote base users is that they identify their
transmissions with their own callsigns but include the RB call for
clarification, so it would sound like this: "This is WA0TDA through the
W0EQO remote base".  In the course of a back and forth QSO, I generally just
use my own call, then every 10 minutes and when signing off I use both.  It
is also a courtesy to allow the other operators to know that the contact is
through a remote so that they know the control operator's QTH is not the
location of the actual transmitter.

Early on in the remote base operations we had a New Zealand operator check
into a regional 75m net up here in Minnesota.  This created quite a surprise
among the net regulars, especially since the control op also had a USA
license and was from Minnesota himself so he sounded like the rest of us up
here, you betcha!

Right now we are beta testing the TS590S and controlling it with the native
ARCP-590 software from Kenwood.  It's pretty easy to set up, since the
single USB cable can port both the radio data and the audio data.  At first
I was disappointed that the VGS1 speech announcements didn't also come down
the USB, but then I discovered that enabling the beeps setting via USB also
enabled the speech announcements - Woohoo!  One disappointing deficiency in
the software is that there seems to be no simple way to alert other control
operators if the station is already in use. I'll write up our findings when
we have enough data to sound reasonably intelligent.  

Cheers and DX,



73 - Pat

Regards,

Patrick Tice
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-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Buddy Brannan
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 12:02 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: handiham remote base access

Not so, I'm fairly sure. After all, if you are the control operator, = using
your operator authority and, in effect, your station license, why = would
you need to identify more than that? I don't think that this would = fall
under the same rules as a repeater station.=20
--
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY



On Aug 17, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Steve <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The remote station has a duty to identify as well.  I don't know if it 
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> set up at H.H. that way, but if not, then I think you have to identify 
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> call running through the remote station's call.
> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: Buddy Brannan
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 7:30 PM
> Subject: Re: handiham remote base access
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> You would use your call sign, as normal. There are no requirements for 
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> identifying yourself as "remote", "portable", or anything else of that 
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> nature. Think of it as using a transmitter with a really, really, =
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> long mic cord.
> --
> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
> Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
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> On Aug 16, 2012, at 7:06 PM, Shawn Pearson =3D  
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Hello all:
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>> Through the combined efforts of Susi White, Herb fields, and Pat =
Tice, =3D
> I =3D3D
>> believe that I now have access to one of the handiham remote base 
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>> stations(It will require a lot of learning to feel comfortable with 
>> =3D=

> it).
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>> As I was speaking with Herb, an interesting question came up =
regarding =3D
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>> how I should identify myself when I use the remote station(My call is 
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>> located in the # 4 call area, while the remote station is in the "0" 
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>> call area). =3D3D20
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>> Do the FCC rules address this scenario, and prescribe how I  should =
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>> identify?  I would appreciate anyone's input.
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>> Best regards,
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>> =3D20
>> =3D20
>> David S. Pearson-wa4dsp=20