If you are calling CQ, running stations, you identify on each CQ, obviously. 
If you get a pileup started, you may sometimes say "thank you" and work 
another station before you identify again. Since so many contesters are 
using spotting or reverse beacon network these days, stations tend to 
identify a little less often when the runs are good. Since I'm not using 
spotting so far, I get annoyed when someone I want to work has made 5 or 
more QSOs without identifying. I can always say "Call?" (or CL? on CW) to 
find out who I am in the process of working.
Then there's the current VP8 DXpedition, who frequently finish a QSO with TU 
Up" (thank you, listening up from this frequency) and hopefully identify as 
VP8SGI every 10 minutes or so.



Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, MD
http://lras.home.sprynet.com
-----Original Message----- 
From: doug and sheilla emerson
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2016 12:11 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: identification requirements/

I myself am not a contester. Wish I was! It would seem to me that if you're
in a contest you would want to I d frequently so that people would know who
you are. Also, that's one field you can fill in before the contester gets to
you in the pileup; their callsign. Here again, I'm not a contester. 73.
Doug, N6NFF

-----Original Message----- 
From: Tom Behler
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2016 4:45 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: identification requirements/

What is interesting is that, say in a contest, if a station  is responding
to a CQ, the responding station often gives its call, and then after the
station calling CQ gives its report, the responding station gives its
report.  When responding to a contest CQ, I always used to put my call sign
at the end of the transmission where I give my report, but no one seems to
do that any more.  Then again, contest contacts are so short that it may not
matter.

Tom Behler: KB8TYJ


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Ron Canazzi
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2016 12:16 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: identification requirements/

Hi Tom,

As far back as I can remember, the only requirement for US hams as far as
call sign identification is to state your call sign every ten minutes and at
the end of your transmission.  By end of transmission, I mean just before
you sign off.


On 1/31/2016 11:06 PM, Tom Fowle wrote:
> Hi all,
> Now I get to slightly embarrass my self.
> Are U.S. licensed hams still required to send both own call and call
> of station with whom we're attempting to communicate both at beginning
> and end of exchange? as well as every 10 minutes during long qsos?
> TNX&73
> Tom Fowle WA6IVG
>