[Dx-qsl] anyone familiar with this kind of callsign?

[Richard L. King]

This could mean that the station of A4XIZ was being operated by A4GFT. I 
think I have heard other stations in that area of the world being signed in 
that manner when a guest operator was operating.

73, Richard

At 05:34 PM 1/15/2004, FireBrick wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: <AQuest1263@aol.com>
>To: <w9ol@billnjudy.com>
>Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 11:25 AM
>Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] anyone familiar with this kind of callsign?
>
>
> > In a message dated 15/01/2004 14:10:09 GMT Standard Time, 
> w9ol@billnjudy.com
> > writes:
> >
> >
> > > I'm transcribing a old log for a station I qsl manage.
> > > The station was in Oman.
> > > I'm finding a few entries for stations with a portable designator I'm not
> > > familiar with.
> > > for instance:
> > > A4XIZ/GFT
> >
> >        What year?
> >        Do you mean all the stations with the GFT suffix were in Oman?
> >        Tony G4UZN
> >
>This was 1984.
>No, I should have been more precise.
>SOME of the qso's with A4 stations had normal looking callsigns entered 
>into the log.
>But some had callsigns entered as A4XIZ/GFT.
>Usually there would be a couple of A4xxx/GFT calls in a row as if it was a 
>net, but not
>always.
>I just couldn't figure out what the GFT signified.
>
>And of course as these went to LoTW, it will have to be exactly the same 
>or a match will
>not be recognized.
>
>
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