{"id":42531,"date":"2025-09-19T12:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T11:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=42531"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:12:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:12:54","slug":"a-reminder-to-identify-yourself-clearly-when-operating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2025\/09\/19\/a-reminder-to-identify-yourself-clearly-when-operating\/","title":{"rendered":"A reminder to identify yourself clearly when operating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every radio amateur knows that it is important to identify yourself clearly when operating.<\/p>\n<p>This includes the mandatory use of a Regional Secondary Locator, or RSL, if you hold an <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/clubs-training\/for-students\/intermediate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Intermediate<\/strong> <\/a>call sign in the 2-series. For example, your call sign would start with 2E0 if you\u2019re in England or 2M0 if you\u2019re operating in Scotland. This mandatory use of the RSL is shown in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ofcom<\/strong> <\/a>licence conditions.<\/p>\n<p>You can find a link to that document on the <a href=\"http:\/\/rsgb.org\/licence-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB licence updates web page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every radio amateur knows that it is important to identify yourself clearly when operating. This includes the mandatory use of a Regional Secondary Locator, or RSL, if you hold an Intermediate call sign in the 2-series. For example, your call sign would start with 2E0 if you\u2019re in England or 2M0 if you\u2019re operating in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42532,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions\/42532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}