TopBand: RM6 and other animals

[Wil DJ7AA]

Chris R. Burger schrieb:
> Several posts have speculated about this station's callsign.
>
> <bold><underline><italic>All</italic></underline></bold>
> "R" callsigns are in Russia and its possessions.  As anyone in these 
> countries will emphatically tell you, the Baltic republics are not 
> included!
>
> R1M.. is M-V Island.
> R1F.. is FJL.
> R1A.. is the Antarctic.
>
> Apart from these:
> * Anything with 2 is in Kaliningradsk
> * Anything with 1, 3, 4 or 6 is in European Russia
> * Anything with 8, 9 or 0 is in Asiatic Russia
>
> I guess it makes sense that anyone with a 6 in the call would send 
> "ER"?
>
> Chris R. Burger
> ZS6EZ
>
Hy all, 


dont warry, ER stands for "European Russia" like AR for "Asiatic Russia".
so stations with a 1, a 3,4 ore 6 can send ER...no compare with ER, never heard 
a station from there in the 160m contest.

73 Wil



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