Yes, Ken, some of this stuff can get confusing. I remember your
situation back in 2000. Back in the 1960 and 1970's I held a
secondary military station call of KH6HNZ while stationed at Barbers
Pt, Hawaii, but my mailing address was actually FPO San Francisco.
With our USCG C-130's we supplied all the LORAN Stations in the
Pacific and Asia, including Kure, and I was able to operate at one
time or another from all of them. They all had addresses of FPO San
Francisco, only the Zip Code decided where the mail would go. So in
the 1970's and previous, the only occupants of Kure Island were the 20
or so USCG personal operating the LORAN Station and there was no Post
Office but contacts from the USCG LORAN STA KURE Island did count for
DXCC. It was strange that I never generated big pile ups when I
operated from Kure as I did from Marcus, Midway, or Johnston. Might
have just been conditions. I always thought French Frigate Schoals
should had been a separate DXCC Country. To me, that had to be the
worst LORAN Sta duty in the Pacific.
Ken Brown wrote:
Alan C. Zack wrote:
A KG4 with two letters in the suffix is supposed to be GITMO
(Guantanamo Bay Cuba) But the FCC, in a dumb move, issued KG4 calls
with a single letter or with 3 letters in the suffix to stateside, US
CONUS, hams. No wonder CT is confused, I am too. DUMB, FCC!!! Any
KG4 should be GITMO, period.
Hi Alan,
This is not the first time the FCC has done something like this.
Callsigns starting with AH7K, KH7K, NH7K, and WH7K are reserved for Kure
Island. However in 2000, I found that AH7K and WH7K were issued to
Hawaii addressed hams. The conclusion I made was that the prefix rule
for Kure Island only applied to 2X2 and 2X3 callsigns, and that 2X1
calls could be issued to Hawaii addressees. So I applied for the vanity
callsign KH7K for our club. In a few weeks KH7K was issued to us and I
used that callsign in one of the 160 CW contests (either 2000 ARRL or
2001 CQ, I don't remember) Soon thereafter the FCC wrote me a letter
saying that KH7K could not be issued to ANYONE, because there is no post
office on Kure Island, and that our second vanity callsign choice would
be issued to us. AH7K and WH7K were also cancelled and other callsigns
issued to those licensees, who had had those calls for months or even
years (but presumably did not operate HF, and therefore did not incite
complaints from HF DXers who apparently complained to the FCC about
KH7K) So now our club has about 900 QSL cards remaining from the 1000
card purchase we made, before the callsign was yanked. It would seem to
me that in order that the FCC apply it's rules equally to all, the 2X1
and 2X3 KG4 callsigns that are not Guantanamo Bay licensees should all
be revoked, or our club's KH7K callsign should be reinstated.
DE N6KB, trustee of Kaumana Wireless Society club license, formerly KH7K
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Amateur Radio Station K7ACZ
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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