XPost: uk.radio.amateur   
   From: roger@hayter.org   
      
   Rob  wrote:   
      
   > Michael Black  wrote:   
   > > There's a Yukon station using the call YK150YUKON, for the 150th year   
   > > since Canadian confederation.  That's a far cry from the club's usual   
   > > VY1AAA callsign.   
   > >   
   > > I remember the days when "special callsigns" fit the usual pattern, except   
   > > the three letters at the end might sort of indicate the special event.   
   > > Even when the US allowed some special prefixes, they weren't as cumbersome   
   > > as YK150YUKON.   
   >   
   > Yes but that was in the old days.  When an e-mail could only be sent   
   > by telex and a photograph was stored on a silver-based chemical.   
   >   
   > Sometimes things change, you know.   
      
   But not Morse code.  And RSI from repeating 10 characters multiple   
   times.   
      
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