Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:48:03 -0700 (PDT)
Not counting portable indicators (VE3/WB2ABC or WB2ABC/VE3) or Rover indicators (WB2ABC/R), what are the longest possible callsigns in probable existance today? Ev, W2EV _____________________________
HB80IARU active right now. Simon Brown -- www.hb9drv.ch www.laax.ch RSGB HF Convention: Friday 7th - Sunday 9th October 2005 Holidays: Monday 10th - Thursday 20th October 2005 _______________________
YY0YYY? YY0QQQ? YY0JJJ? JJ0JJJ, JJ0QQQ, JJ0YYY or some combination thereof for CW. 73s John NE0P _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http
TG0FRACAP is the longest one I recall. Not counting portable indicators (VE3/WB2ABC or WB2ABC/VE3) or Rover indicators (WB2ABC/R), what are the longest possible callsigns in probable existance today?
What about HB0/HB9HFN/AM ? Funny: MM/HB9HFN/AM (good to check a logging program :-)) 73, Cedric HB9HFN _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.co
VP9/WA4PGM/M try that 3 times fast. :) Not counting portable indicators (VE3/WB2ABC or WB2ABC/VE3) or Rover indicators (WB2ABC/R), what are the longest possible callsigns in probable existance today?
In Finland four-letter-suffix vanity calls are issued. So there is calls like OH2TIMO, OH3699K, OH6ADHD etc. on the air. Also our "FCC" has said that also longer calls are possible for the short peri
U5ARTEK had recent annual celebration, HB80IARU is presently active, up to 4 numbers may apear in prefix etc. 14 chars are recommended. It is all covered by ITU callsign list but AD1C enjoys tabling
How about the TK9KBLRM that was on the air from Kabul, Afghanistan? LOL! _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:32:15 -0700
HG2004HUN submitted logs in the M/M category of the 2004 JARL All Asian DX Contest, both CW and Phone. -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenharker.com http://www.kenharker.com/ ____________________
If we want to go the other way, I remember working at least two 2 x 0 calls back in the early to mid 80s during contests. One was TU73 which was my first TU station ever worked, so I have his QSL as
Although not strictly responsive: In any given pileup at any given time, the longest callsign is, without fail, that of the LOUDEST and SLOWEST calling station. Jeff K8ND ____________________________
And don't forget JY1, King Hussein 73,Ted W4NZ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contes
For many years in the 60's I was W 6 B V K and I'm a CW guy. I was never so happy to get rid of a call. MAL N7MAL BULLHEAD CITY, AZ http://www.ctaz.com/~suzyq/N7mal.htm http://geocities.com/n7mal/ Do
Back in 1981 I used the call SM4DHF/OH0/OJ0 from Market reef which was a pain! Goran SM4DHF SM4F in SAC this weekend _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest
I don't remember the exact call, but I once heard something like 5H5/JH1SHJ in one of the CW contests. Try fisting that out on a straight key! Mike, W1NR _____________________________________________
With all due respect, I do not think this is 100% correct. In WRC 2003 it was decided by the ITU that the suffix can now be ANY length, and that the last digit in the suffix MUST ne a letter (cannot
Heehee - under week signal conditions that would be verrry interesting! I had enough trouble just getting "EN61gq" across on CW in the 10 GHz contest yesterday. :-] 73, Zack W9SZ ____________________
Very long callsign like HB80IARUREGIONONE have a lot of redundancy. Thanks to our prior knowledge, we should recieve just parts of it and fill the gaps. However, my historical example from 1978 using
In 2004, 9A2004YC was QRV for the first Worldwide Young Contesters' (WWYC) meeting in Pazin, Croatia. In 2005, SP0WWYC was QRV for the second WWYC meeting in Darlowo, Poland. Not amazingly long calls