EXPERIMENTAL HF STATIONS LOSE CALLSIGN-ID WAIVER

Experimental HF stations that had previously held waivers exempting them from station identification are now being required to transmit their assigned callsigns at least once every half-hour. The FCC sent letters in December to those stations who held the temporary waivers saying it was dropping the exemptions following complaints of interference from other spectrum users. The experimental licenses are for stations operating on the band between 2 and 25 MHz.

A posting on Radio World reported the change, which first appeared in Experimental Radio News from Bennett Kobb, AK4AV

The FCC has said that the identification must be in either by voice or Morse Code and that digital encoding and digital modulation must be disabled during the ID.