[CQ-Contest] WPX call question

Ron Notarius W3WN wn3vaw at verizon.net
Tue Aug 31 17:45:19 PDT 2010


While I'm not familiar with the two stations, a quick look at the prefix
cross reference shows that CR6 was the pre-1976 regular prefix for Angola,
so it's very possible that a special WPX prefix call was assigned.

And XX7 was a pre-1976 prefix for Mozambique.  Now considering that the
regular pre-76 prefix was CR7, and the regular pre-76 prefix for Macao was
CR9, a clear pattern appears here.  So it's very possible that XX6 was a
special WPX prefix call as well for Angola.

So my strong suspicion, pending hard evidence to the contrary, is that these
were the WPX special calls for, most likely, CR6LF & CR6OZ, and that they
were (are) located in Angola.  I wouldn't change a thing.

73

-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Randy Thompson K5ZD
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 7:34 PM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] WPX call question

The 1975 WPX SSB results show CQ6LF and XX6OZ as being in Angola.  Does
anyone know anything about these calls and can confirm or correct their
location?

Randy, K5ZD

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