[UK-CONTEST] Cyprus Amateur Callsigns

[Bob Henderson]

You are correct Gerry.  That's where speed reading gets me ;-)

What it actually says is; "Korea has issued a special event callsign of D9K.
[3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU_prefix_-_amateur_and_experimental_stations#cite_note-2>Technically,
the 'D9' is the ITU prefix for South Korea, so they have issued
a call with no separating numeral. This could cause confusion if other
countries in the 'D' block started issuing single-character prefixes with
'9' as the separating numeral. For example, Germany is assigned DAA-DRZ and
if they issued an out-of-format call of D9K as well (with the 9 as the
separating numeral) this would produce call-sign confusion."

73 Bob, 5B4AGN

On 31 May 2011 14:37, Gerry Lynch <me at gerrylynch.co.uk> wrote:

> On 31/05/2011 14:55, Bob Henderson wrote:
> > As D9 is allocated to South Korea, I would think it logical it be
> excluded
> > from Germany's DAA - DRZ block allocation.  According to Wikipedia the
> ITU
> > doesn't, having left it open to Germany to issue D9+ letter(s).
>
> That's not what the article says, Bob.
>
> D9K would be clearly a South Korean call. The article doesn't say
> anything otherwise. Germany hasn't issued a D9 callsign since the
> swastika last flew over Berlin.
>
> Although C4N, D4B, D9K, etc. are improper **amateur** callsign
> allocations, according to ITU rules, they are perfectly within each of
> the issuing countries' overall allocation - just in a format that should
> be used for maritime shore stations. Not that any of those seem to use
> callsigns these days.
>
> The callsigns that are definitely out of allocation are the U1, etc.
> callsigns (not R1, etc., which are perfectly valid Russian callsigns)
> used by some old timers in Russia and the Ukraine, which are remaining
> callsigns from the pre-war Soviet allocation system. As I understand it,
> war veteran radio ops who were licensed hams were allowed to keep their
> old callsigns after the war. These became invalid when the USSR split up
> and the U callsign block was split between various post-Soviet successor
> states. Some of those seem to have been handed on to grandchildren. I
> think there's a U5WA and a U1 something - U1BA maybe? - still active.
>
> 73
>
> Gerry ZS1/Gi0RTN
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