Alex Discovers Amateur Radio

17 Hi I heard you discussing call signs – mine starts with A5 . I’m Yeshey A51AA . Bhutan Some call sign prefixes you might hear: CT Portugal, DA-DR Germany, EA-EH Spain, F France, HB Switzerland, I Italy, JA-JS Japan, K,W,N,AA-AK USA, LA-LN Norway, LO-LW Argentina, LX Luxembourg, ON-OT Belgium, OX Greenland, PA-PI Netherlands, PP-PY Brazil, SN-SR Poland, SU Egypt, UA-U11, RA-RZ European Russia, VE,VO,VY Canada, VK Australia, Zl-ZM New Zealand, ZR-ZU South Africa. Look up who call signs belong to at http://www.QRZ.com Can you identify where I come from by my call sign? Bill, M5JKL . Nice to meet you Yeshey. I have no idea. A5… I am from Bhutan . On the border of India and China. The Himalayan mountains run through my country. I’ll take over from you for a bit Rick while you have a break. 380 contacts in 4 hours . Not bad, not bad. I could use a fresh mug of tea. It’s my turn to put in a stint on the 40m contest station. Bye for now. Hey Yeshey, you’re next up. . I’ll catch up with you guys later. It was nice meeting you Alex. Rick, would you like me to get you a mug of tea? I have to meet my Dad at 1300 hours in the car park for lunch anyway. No thanks Mady. I’m going to head over that way myself. Want to come along? OK. You coming Alex? Sure.