[QCWA] Ham calls

[Don W7WLL]

OK, good info and the Z as I understand it went to amateur operators qualified to be ‘radio relay stations’, hence why some made assumption to consider these folks to be ‘traffic handlers’ when this was not really the case, not in the sense as we think of the NTS today.

Tnx Ron! Now about the military suffix’s!!

Don W7WLL

From: Ron Fish 
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 5:11 PM
To: w7wll at arrl.net ; qcwa at maillman.qth.net 
Subject: Re: [QCWA] Ham calls

Maybe W3BE knows...but this stuff predates the FCC by 20 years.  From the web:
Amateur and Special Land stations fell into a separate callsign scheme. In fact, they did not qualify for "international" calls, and the International Bureau at Berne was not notified of their existence. The United States was divided into nine Radio Inspection Districts and these stations received calls consisting of their district number followed by a pair of letters. Regular amateurs received calls whose first letter was from A through W, for example, 8MK. (The 1914 Radio Stations of the United States noted that "The three items-a given figure first, followed by two letters of the alphabet-thus may be combined in 598 different calls, which will probably suffice for the amateur sending stations in most districts for some time to come".) Among the three licence classes known collectively as Special Land Stations, X was reserved as the first letter for stations holding Experimental licences (e.g. 1XE), Y designated stations holding a Technical or Training School licence (e.g. 9YY), and Z went to stations operating with Special Amateur licences (e.g. 8ZZ).
Ron, KX1W



-----Original Message-----
From: Don W7WLL <w7wll at arrl.net>
To: Ronf404 <ronf404 at aol.com>; QCWA (Listserv) <qcwa at maillman.qth.net>
Sent: Tue, Dec 1, 2015 7:56 pm
Subject: Re: [QCWA] Ham calls

It certainly appears that the Y was used for school clubs (colleges and 
universities) and was in place for some period of time, but I've been unable 
to find any substantiation of this being a FCC instituted practice in FCC or 
other records I've been able to locate on line. Wonder if anyone has any 
hard information on this?? Same holds true for the assignments of the W, F 
and N suffix's with the K prefix for the military clubs. One can see it 
happened but what internal rules or regs did the FCC follow in this practice 
for the short period of time it was done?

Curious, yup killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. Must be an 
old guy thing.

Don W7WLL

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ronf404 via QCWA
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 6:15 AM
To: QCWA at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [QCWA] Ham calls

The early Y suffix was reserved for school clubs. The station at WPI ( my 
alma mater) was 1YK, today W1YK.

X is still used today for experimental. The stations operating through FCC 
authorization for the new VLF band have a WX2 call.

Ron Fish, KX1W
Novice WN1OQT, 1971

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