[SEDXC] SEDXC 50th anniversary

[John T. Laney III]

Paul Pescitelli wrote:

>It should be fairly easy inquiry to get the '50' in the callsign, much
>like we did for the Olympics where we put '96' in place of the '4'.
>
>73 - Paul
>
>On 1/2/07, Carl <carl at wb4znh.com> wrote:
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>>I guess we have about a year to decide the appropriate "celebration" for
>>our beloved club.  I have over the years heard stations on the air
>>signing /## and I think I also have heard things like wb4#znh.  The FCC
>>doesn't want to issue special event calls any more and the ARRL has some
>>1x1 callsigns it can "loan" out.  My terminology is probably all wrong,
>>but you get my meaning, I hope.  If we could get permission to sign our
>>calls like WB4ZNH/50 for a couple months, that might be nice.  I wonder
>>if /C might be possible since C is not an international prefix, but is
>>the Roman Numeral for 50.  How does a person inquire about such things?
>>73, Carl
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No.  The numbers in the middle of the call are no longer approved by the 
FCC.  You would have to reverse almost ten years of FCC policy to get 
special prefixes and, if it ever happens, it won't be for an anniversary 
of a regional club.  73, John.