Alex Discovers Amateur Radio

Hi I heard you discussing

call signs – mine starts with

. 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.