I couldn’t find the definitive answer on the RSGB website, nor the email address for queries regarding the MR/GR special prefixes. So I emailed my RSGB Region Manager, Kath Wilson M1CNY. She has just replied to confirm that the ‘R’ calls may be used away from the main station address, including /M and /P.
Why you’d want such a call beats me. The other station will have worked 3 stations whilst you’re still sending and have still to reach the / character.
I have submitted my Application, but can we use the ‘R’ call on 60m or
does the 60m Nov effectively prohibit that ?
I can see nothing in the 5MHz NoV that would prohibit it. It merely adds some clauses to the main body and some frequencies to the schedule, but doesn’t change the identification requirements. So unless the “R” NoV says otherwise, I would take it to apply to the licence as already varied by the 5MHz NoV. The important point is that the licence has been “varied”, it is not a separate licence.
However we won’t know for sure until we see the actual wording of the new NoV.
The problems will be with the QSL Bureau who will not know which
regional sub-manager to send a GR card to.
I’m also wondering whether the ARRL will be prepared to issue more than one certificate for the same callsign for LoTW. A certificate has the DXCC entity bound into it. It’s quite likely that I would need one for both England and Wales.
There’s no alert recorded for your proposed activation? As already stated, if you’re going on HF then these novel prefixes can attract significant interest. Probably less so in the UK where everyone will bored with them after a few minutes.
Approximately, “MUnUth EnHLi”, where the ‘U’ represents the ‘schwa’ sound, as in the second vowel of ‘open’, ‘hammer’ and ‘over’, ‘H’ represents an h pronounced with the middle front of your tongue firmly against the roof of your mouth just behind your teeth and the L is quite a “liquid” L.
I think. (Some vowels in Welsh can be confusing - y is one of them.)
If you really want a definitive answer, I know some people who speak Welsh, and I may be able to get guidance.
Specialist: “Ah! Mr Luxury Yacht. Do sit down, please.”
Mr Luxury Yacht: “No, no. My name is spelt ‘Luxury Yacht’ but it’s pronounced ‘Throatwarbler Mangrove’.”