[CQ-Contest] [yccc] Unusual prefixes, suffixes and calls

Mon May 31 12:36:56 EDT 2021

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 at oreilly.com>
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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 at 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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