[UK-CONTEST] special calls for 2012

[David Ferrington]

Yes, good idea - I should just about be up to handling a modest pile up by
then :-)

Seriously though, since the Dx2006 stations in Germany raised so much
interest this year, can't we do something like that?

What possible series of callsigns could be used to do that?

Are you suggesting something like (based on my call) 2O12XDF - not been
around enough to know what we can use.


On 19/7/06 7:30 am, "uk-contest-request at contesting.com"
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> Good idea Nigel but also think about how everyone else can participate  too.
> 
> So we have the special 2O12 prefix for a series of Olympic stations
> presumably located in or near the actual Olympic venues and then some other
> special 
> prefix for everyone else (G or M2012 for England, GW/MW2012 etc) so it
> spreads 
> the fun around as the GE and GQ did. Eg The Watersports is possibly  going to
> be at Nottingham so G3SJJ runs 2O12N etc. But has he got a good enough
> station to run 10m?
> 
> 73, Geoff
> 
> 
> In a message dated 17-Jul-06 08:53:24 PM GMT Daylight Time,
> uk-contest-request at contesting.com writes:
> 
> 
> For  the 2012 Olympics how about using 2O12 (that's Two Oscar One Two) as a
> special prefix? Yes, it's one of ours all right!
> 
> This prefix could  be used for a series of special stations, although
> probably not on an  individual station basis because like with the GE's
> (1977) and the GQ's  (2002), there is the inevitable problem/muddle with
> losing the DXCC  identifier from the prefix.
> 

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