[UK-CONTEST] Cyprus Amateur Callsigns

[David G3YYD]

Germany is not issued with the D number block unlike the UK, which has 
the G number block as well as GA-GZ (likewise for the M). So they have 
to use a letter after the D if they follow the ITU recommendations.

The ITU does not regulate it makes recommendations therefore some 
administrations will act differently from the recommendation. There are 
also on many of the recommendations national foot notes pointing out 
some of the variations.

73 David G3YYD

On 31/05/2011 14:49, Bob Henderson wrote:
> 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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