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Peter Forsberg sm2odb at kommunicera.umea.se
Mon Dec 2 04:27:41 EST 2002


Hi Hans !

It seems that i can do the other way and sty at home and sign wath ever i won't!!
OR??
73-s Peter/sm2odb

----- Original Message -----
From: "KOHB" <k0hb at earthlink.net>
To: "Jan Erik Holm" <sm2ekm at telia.com>; <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Re: Short contest calls.


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jan Erik Holm" <sm2ekm at telia.com>
>
>
> > Talking about US calls, can you people explain this to me, it?s
> > been puzzling me for years.
> > There is a K6 guy operating from KH6, he doesn?t sign /KH6
> > or KH6/ just his K6 and two letter suffix. I have asked him on
> > the air and he says it?s perfectly right. How can it be?? Does
> > not seem to follow international regulations which also are signed
> > by the USA.
>
> The "K6" suffix is assigned to the USA.  Hawaii is part of the USA.  =
There
is no
> international regulation which says Hawaii stations must sign "KH6".  =
In
fact,
> Hawaii was originally "K6" and California was "W6" only.  Within the
borders of
> a country there is no international regulation how the prefixes must =
be
> allocated.
>
>
> o?o  73, de Hans, K0HB




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