Living in PVRC land allowed for some interesting visitors to show up on the
repeater.
One day, JY1/W3 popped in. He was enroute from the State Department to the PVRC
downtown luncheon. Just a normal chat with Hussein. He’d also fly his own plane
for some of the visits. I suppose if you are the King, you can assign yourself
a nice call.
When Pres George W Bush was in, he could have gotten W as his call. “CQ Contest
this is W, just W.”
I wonder if Sen Goldwater would have had a radio at the White House? He had a
Big Bertha back in AZ. He sponsored W3USS in the Senate office building. K3ZJ
operated there a lot. The antenna was a vertical on acres of copper roofing.
That station has gone QRT now that the sponsor has departed.
I recall working 5VZDB. Same thing, no digit. He was worked on a short middle
of the night 20 Meter opening that’s there with higher sunspot numbers.
On some of the nature shows, the field crews have HF antennae on their
vehicles. The current Wildlife in Malawi has a vet who can dart animals from a
moving helicopter **. They haven’t shown the helo. I’m trying to see if it has
a 7Q call or one from a neighboring country.
Many of the wildlife collars seem to be in the VHF region. The tracker has a 2
element beam. One collar installed has a GPS uplink, so they know where the
animal is several times a day. It’s odd that the collar just sends a ping.
Sending a Morse Code letter would allow them to know if it’s Mamma, Daddy or
one of the kids.
** The vet said her father taught her how to shoot when she was a kid. I think
she grew up on a ranch.
The Malawi group does not have HF on their vehicles. I’m not sure how good cell
coverage is.
73,
Ray
From: Mike Loukides<mailto:mikel@oreilly.com>
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2021 12:07 PM
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Subject: Re: [yccc] Unusual prefixes, suffixes and calls
I remember working 5VZGH (Togo) back in high school. (No second digit to
separate prefix from suffix.) Pretty sure I still have the QSL.
Mike W1JQ
On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 11:57 AM Kermit Lehman via groups.io <ktfrog007=
aol.com@groups.io> wrote:
> Before the WPX we were having fun with unusual prefixes and calls. Here
> is a random selection of unusual calls. I've worked or heard all of them
> except JY1 and TYA11.
>
> Unusual prefixes not ITU issued or approved (see:
> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FNon-ITU_prefix&data=04%7C01%7C%7C4490ac3f89f142c4fee808d9244e308b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637580740517873373%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=62O%2FlAQGCbYVCkzyzhQtUqEz161%2FXMyiSSA3xJ2lJ5M%3D&reserved=0
> for many others)
> T00RM Seborga, Italy
> T10VB Transnistria, a breakaway region of Moldova
> X5BYZ Republic of Srpska (temporary in E7)
> D0-D1 Donetsk People's Republic (breakaway region of Ukraine)
> Z6 Not an official ITU prefix as far as I know
> Any call starting with the digit 1 (e.g., 1A0KM)
>
> Calls with no suffix:
> JY1 King Hussein of Jordan (SK)
> EF6 for King Felipe VI of Spain's coronation: Espana, Felipe, VI
>
> Calls with digits in suffixes:
> 9AY2K
> PP9AO7 I'd say PP9 is the prefix, but LoTW says the whole call is the
> prefix.
> LM9L40Y I'm glad this was on RTTY
> NAV3 Armed Forces Day station
> SLKFD1 Pirate from USA on FT8 - I'm not making this up
>
> TYA11 A non-amateur call issued by mistake in Benin
>
> UPOL12 USSR North Polar expedition, probably not an amateur call
>
> VC3C2C Canada from Sea 2 Sea
>
>
> Calls with no digits (most are Armed Forces Day operations):
> AIR, NPG, NSS, WAR and other Armed Forces stations
> RAEM Ernst Krenkel, Hero of the Soviet Union (SK)
>
> Long or difficult calls:
> OM2015TITANIC
> ON50WAASLAND
> 4T100MP Not long but some ops sent cut numbers on CW: 4TATTMP - try to
> figure that out!
>
>
> I know there are many, many others. Someone might want to catalog them
> for fun, even if not for profit.
>
> 73,
> Ken, AB1J
>
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