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   From: roger@hayter.org   
      
   Rob  wrote:   
      
   > Roger Hayter  wrote:   
   > > 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.   
   >   
   > What if your QTH is   
   > Llanfair?pwllgwyngyll?gogery?chwyrn?drobwll?llan?tysilio?gogo?goch?   
      
   Callsigns tend to have to be used more, at least under the old rules.   
   In any case you could probably get the general region down to three   
   letters if you were in a hurry.   
      
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