[ADXA] E5 North Cook -vs- E5 South Cook

[Richard Harris]

North Cooks/South Cooks. Interesting question. When I traveled there in
2004 and 2005 it was still ZK1.
When I was going in 2006, someone (Bernie, maybe?) suggested that I try to
find out if they could
assign the new E5 callsigns in some manner - like E51 for Raratonga, E52
for Aitutaki, etc. You have to
realize that the guy who issues callsigns has many other duties - and to
set up some type of system (which,
admittedly to us seems simple) - is not on his radar. Another thing I seem
to remember is that all the
fishing boats (and perhaps other things) have radio licenses and to have to
redo all that just isn't worth
the time or trouble to the local "PTT." I did discuss it with the local
hams... Great place, would love to
get back! Rick AI5P

On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 2:47 PM <w5zn at w5zn.org> wrote:

> Steve N4JQQ and I were having an email exchange today about North Cook and
> South Cook Island's both now having the same prefix E5. You old dogs will
> recall they have been different throughout history, and even more so before
> they were call "Cook" Islands.
>
> So, the question was how do you tell the difference between the two based
> on the callsign since two separate DXCC entities have the same callsign
> prefix. Somehow in my mind I though the North Cook stations would be
> something like E51Nxx and South Cook would be E51Sxx or something like that
> but I can't find anything to support that wild theory that exists in my
> head.
>
> Can someone enlighten me? Bill Kennamer, being our DXCC resident expert
> historian can you set me straight?
>
> Thanks
>
> Joel W5ZN
>
>
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