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VP8/MM0TJR/P callsign affaire |
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Written by Xavier
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
 Following the last VP8/MM0TJR/P from Caboose Hut activity, this a clarifying received from Alan "VKØLD"
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Sun Jun 8, 2008 11:37 pm (PDT)
Politically, the British Antarctic Territory is 'administered' from the Falkland Islands (at least as far as the United Kingdom is concerned) and as employees of the British government, members of the British Antarctic Survey are subject to this administration. Amateur radio licences for use within BAT are issued by the Falkland Islands Government. The United Kingdom (unlike Argentina, USA, Russia, Australia etc.) does not issue amateur radio licences for use in Antarctica.
The only licence and authority to operate that is legal(and therefore valid for amateur radio recognition purposes) is issued by the Post Office in Stanley, Falkland Islands and the callsigns issued are VP8xxx, not VP8/homecall.
Someone who was not a UK citizen might be able to get away with using 'VP8/homecall' at locations within BAT because 'VP8' is really just being used to indicate QTH (e.g. VP8/EM1KU). As a foreign national in 'British' Antarctica, they do not need any permission from the Falkland Islands anyway, but a British national does!
A British Antarctic Survey employee operating from a British base (or hut, caboose, tent or whatever) is obliged to use a VP8 callsign. This is what myself, my successor VP8SB, VP8QI, VP8ANT and others were required to do.
As far as I know, there is no precedent of VP8/ G homecall and I doubt that it would pass the ARRL's DXCC / QSL validity criteria.
Maybe Tristan simply didn't want to pay the twenty pounds life-time licence fee to the Falkland Islands Post Office in order to get a legitimate VP8 callsign. However, unilaterally prefixing a homecall with VP8/ does not automatically transform a valid homecall into a valid Antarctic call.
Even if a dubious VP8/homecall callsign is deemed acceptable for Antarctic challenge purposes, the correct suffix would be /A and not /P in this instance.
73 Alan
Alan Cheshire
VK6CQ / VK0LD / VP8PJ
PO Box 8
Willetton 6955
Western Australia
http://www.geocities.com/vk0ld/home.html
Tks Alan, VK0LD and Mehdi, F5PFP
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