Identifying yourself on the air

When you connect to an RHR station you are its control operator, and everything it transmits is your responsibility. Correct identification is the one rule RHR enforces without exception. These are the terms you accepted when you signed up, explained.

Use your own callsign

Identify with the callsign on your RHR account and no other. Your account, your license and your logbook all carry that callsign, and RHR reviews what stations transmit on CW and digital modes for correct identification.

Stations outside the US

RHR has stations in several countries, and each one's name starts with the prefix to use there, for example 9A/Croatia or TI8/CostaRica. From any station whose name carries a prefix, identify with that prefix in front of your callsign:

Stations named W0/… through W9/… are in the United States: use your own callsign with no prefix, whatever your call area.

If your own callsign is already from the station's country, no prefix is needed: a 9A call at a Croatian station, or a KP4, NP3 or WP4 call at the Puerto Rico station.

The console creates a logbook for each country whose stations you can use, with the matching callsign format, so a contact from Croatia is logged as 9A/ your callsign without you doing anything. See Logbook overview.

Stations with their own callsign

A few stations transmit under a callsign of their own rather than yours. Identify with the station's callsign exactly as its name shows it, and log contacts under it:

• HH2AA in Haiti. Identify as HH2AA, never with your own callsign, and log every contact as HH2AA in the RHR logbook. Contacts made as HH2AA go to the HH2AA Club Log and LoTW accounts, not yours.
• Special-event and expedition stations such as K4FPT/MM and KP5/NP3VI, when they are on the network.

CEPT members

Members who joined on a CEPT license may receive on any station but transmit only from stations in CEPT countries, and identify with that country's prefix. Remote operation of a US station by a CEPT licensee is not legal in the US, so CEPT members cannot transmit from US stations. See CEPT members.

Your license privileges still apply

Operating remotely does not change what your license allows. Stay within the frequencies, modes and power your class permits. RHR stations run high power; if your privileges are limited, choose a rate and band accordingly.

Under US rules (47 CFR Part 97) the control operator is responsible for the proper operation of the station, including identification and staying within the station's authorized privileges, wherever the operator is located. The same responsibility applies under the rules of the other countries RHR operates in.

No tolerance

If you are reported for improper identification, your membership is permanently removed. This is stated in the terms you accepted at signup and there are no warnings first. When in doubt, identify more often, not less.