OK, I know there's a difference between what IS and what SHOULD BE,
but are 1x1 calls really the best for special events?
Here in the UK, as most of you know, we have GB-prefixed calls for
special events - AND you can pick and choose a letter combo. We might
have:
GB4FGC - 4th Fish Gutting Championships
GB100STP - Centenary of Soft Toilet Paper
GB5SIP - Five Stuck in Phonebox
and so on.
The largely-meaningless single-letter calls are handed exclusively to
contesters, with the proviso that they use them in a certain number
of contests each year.
OK, at the moment we have a daft rule which changes the numeral of
your contest call each year (GM6V in '96; GM7V in '97, etc), but
we're hopeful this will cease soon.
Why not poke your 'powers that be' with sharp objects until you get
something similar...
73
Al, GM4BAP
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