Universal Callsigns

[MikeAlpha3041]

I suggested this is another thread.......

"If we were to agree there was to be some kind of area coordination then we could issue a call sign for a particular "member" who is acting as a coordinator for say a county and arrange a watch rota. We could then sector that down (say, in the case of London, Borough coordinators) because we ain't going to be going far from 'ome are we? and have sector coordinators with associated call signs and in fact any member of our group could have, upon request, an issued call sign that we publish and is available to any one on here so if we are away from home we can identify ourselves and solicit help from willing members.

The call signs could take the form of 3 letter County ID and 3 digit member ID, coordinators could have any triple number for easy recognition.

This is my attempt at listing each country call sign using the standard 3 letter abbreviation from the logistics fraternity.

County, Call sign, Coordinator
Surrey, SRY111, MikeAlpha

So I would identify myself to any SUK member as:

Sierra Romeo Yankee triple one MikeAlpha listerning on PMR Px or LDP Channel x (where x the channel number).

I'm sure you'll get the idea......

If a "communication manual" was kept with your radio/s anyone finding it or wanting to use it in your absence would have the info to hand. All they would have to do is look up the county they are in and make a call to one of the listed coordinators or other members.

Just an idea to kick things off."

There are a couple of "specialist" radio groups out there that have recognisable call sign (like mine on CB site "Charlie Tango" 26CT898) and lets face it the ham fraternity have been administrating issued call sign for decades so it does make sense.

I'd be happy to administrate if it's a go

MA