[Elecraft] Question re: callsign prefixes

Mon Dec 1 17:23:14 2003

You probably worked D44TD, Cape Verde Islands, CQ Zone 35. A strange =
call sign and easily mistaken for DV4TD.

  Dave WX7G

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Ken Alexander
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 3:11 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Elecraft] Question re: callsign prefixes

This probably isn't the ideal place to be asking this, but since a =
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you were also in CQWW this past weekend, maybe you'll indulge me this =
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as I stray off topic.  This is actually kind of embarassing...not good=20
practice.

At 2128 UTC on Sunday I heard a guy calling CQ all alone on 14038.2.  He =
was=20
blazing along at about 35 wpm, way past my capability to keep up in a=20
regular QSO, and nobody was coming back to him.  For laughs, I cranked =
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the keyer speed on my KX1 and blasted my call at him.  He immediately =
called=20
back (nailing my call the first time) and gave me 599 - 35....zone 35, =
west=20
Africa!  I replied with 599 - 04 and he thanked me!

I spent the next 20 minutes listening to him on the KX1 and my AOR =
AR-7030+=20
and I still can't figure out his callsign!  To me it sounded like DV4TD, =
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the only part I'm 100% sure of is "4TD".  I'm not sure about the DV =
part. =20
I'm struggling to find a good reference for callsign prefixes.  Any help =

would be appreciated.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled program material...

Thanks and 73

Ken Alexander - VE3HLS
Newmarket ON

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