AN ACR PILOT NOTES THAT AFTER TAXIING FROM GATES; THE SIGN ON TXWY H2 INDICATES TXWY H IS BEING ENTERED WHEN THE ACFT IS ON TXWY H ENTERING H2.

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TAXIING OUT; WE WERE INSTRUCTED TO TAXI VIA TXWY H TO CROSS RWY 14. ON TXWY H2; I STOPPED THE AIRPLANE BECAUSE I DIDN'T THINK WE WERE GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. AT THE SAME TIME; THE CTLR INSTRUCTED US WE WERE ALREADY ON TXWY H AND SHOULD BE TAXIING S ON TXWY H. I THOUGHT THIS WAS RIGHT; BUT THE TXWY SIGN I WAS LOOKING AT CLEARLY TOLD ME TXWY H WAS THE NEXT TXWY AHEAD. MY FO AND I BOTH AGREED THE SIGN WAS WRONG AND HYPOTHESIZED THAT THE SIGN WAS PLACED BACKWARDS. WE INFORMED GND CTL OF THE PROB. THERE WERE NO CONFLICTS; AND WE HAD NOT GONE BUT A FEW FT DOWN TXWY H2; SO WE WERE ABLE TO MAKE THE TURN DOWN TXWY H AS INSTRUCTED. OUR WRONG TURN WE PREVENTED BY GOOD SITUATIONAL AWARENESS ON THE PART OF ATC AND BOTH CREW MEMBERS (IF I DO SAY SO MYSELF). ALTHOUGH I UNDERSTAND THAT ANYONE CAN MAKE A MISTAKE; AND THIS PARTICULAR SIGN WAS NOT TERRIBLY CRITICAL; I FIND IT DISTRESSING THAT THERE WAS A TXWY SIGN SO BLATANTLY WRONG. ON ANOTHER DAY AT ANOTHER ARPT; A MISTAKE LIKE THIS COULD HAVE SERIOUS RAMIFICATIONS. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: THE REPORTER STATED THAT AFTER ARPT PERSONNEL AND FAA INSPECTORS LOOKED AT THE SIGN IT WAS CHANGED VERY SHORTLY THEREAFTER TO A BLACK H2. THE REPORTER DID NOT REMEMBER AN H IN THE TAXIWAY AFTER CROSSING THE DASHED YELLOW LINES TRANSITIONING FROM THE RAMP TO H. HE STATED THAT WOULD BE USEFUL; BUT JUST THE H2 SIGN CHANGE WILL CLEAR THINGS UP.