I don't know, so I'll ask: is the call sign equivalent to a phone number, and should be managed as such? How do you find folks with whom to chat? My knowledge of ham radio doesn't extend far past knowing that it's called ham radio.
The call sign is equivalent to the residential listing in the old Yellow Pages: full name and address. By FCC (and universally adopted rules worldwide) one must state their call sign when transmitting. I can't fantom the reason one may want to include it in their signature in the public forum. You chat with whomever is reachable over radiowaves and is inclined to talk to you. I got into ham thing to have an emergency communication channel while overlanding. The HF range is pretty wide - coast to coast easily. Somebody may call a tow truck for me one day.I don't know, so I'll ask: is the call sign equivalent to a phone number, and should be managed as such? How do you find folks with whom to chat? My knowledge of ham radio doesn't extend far past knowing that it's called ham radio.
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Because fuck you that's why.
That's funny because I can never find my own call sign for whatever reason the database just refuses to spit out the answer I can log in and see all my information but the database is completely useless as far as I can tell
Ok…deep breaths…probably ignorance.
I didn’t know flat rate applied to outside the Continental US. So today I learned something new. Thanks.Oh I'm not fuming here, but this thread is basically a rant thread, no?Ok…deep breaths…probably ignorance.
I didn’t take it as you were fuming just my normal smartassery. We’ll see, now I’ve been schooled at least twice today. I knew I should have paid more attention in geography class. Rant away.
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I tend to land on "CONUS" (i.e., contiguous) because in my experience, buyers prefer or require Ground shipping. That's due to the service having a reliable record of dynamic tracking # updates and, perhaps more importantly, consistently meeting delivery date projections. There's no flat rate shipping there, though. I therefore tend to exclude AK and HI so as to avoid sticker shock transit costs.
I'll sincerely keep your mention of USPS Flat Rate boxes in mind.
Would you like a toke now?
When I look up what the definition of Continental US I get about a 50/50 split in whether Alaska is included or not. You'd think it would be, but even federal DoD sites explicitly state otherwise. E.g. https://samm.dsca.mil/glossary/continental-united-states-conus
Alaska is excluded, but Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are in.
Yep. They have a different per diem request/rate for CONUS vs OCONUS. Same as GSA and other acronym agencies. They do that to keep it simple (and because no one knows “contiguous”).
