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Map showing the numeral codes for amateur radio call signs in the United States. The region in which the operator was licensed determines the numeral. United States amateur radio call signs consist of one or two letters, followed by a single digit, and closing with one to three more letters. [20]
Description: Map of amateur radio callsigns in the United States, showing 50 US States and populated territories. Date: 1 September 2010, 21:24 (UTC): Source
Call signs are allocated to ham radio stations in Barbados, Canada, Mexico and the United States. Many countries have specific conventions for classifying call signs by transmitter characteristics and location. The call sign format for radio and television call signs follows a number of conventions.
These call signs start with the letters K, N or W, followed by a single numeral from 0 to 9 then followed by a single letter from A through W, Y or Z. The letter X is not allowed as it is reserved for experimental stations. Thus, there are 750 such call signs available. [30] Each call sign may be used for 15 days from its issue.
It refers to a list of saltwater islands worldwide maintained by the Radio Society of Great Britain, which assigns a unique code to an island or group of islands, like EU-005 for Great Britain, OC-001 for Australia etc. [36] [37] IOTA codes are not part of the callsign, although some callsign blocks correspond uniquely to an IOTA code, like EA6 ...
Newington, CT: American Radio Relay League. 2007. Containing all 32,400 Maidenhead Locator Squares; IARU Locator of Europe. Potters Bar, UK: Radio Society of Great Britain. 1984. IARU Locator of Western Europe. Potters Bar, UK: Radio Society of Great Britain. 1985. (scale 1:2,000,000) ARRL Amateur Radio Map of North America.
QRZ.com is an amateur radio website listing almost every callsign in the world. In 1992, QRZ founder Fred L. Lloyd accessed data from the FCC database to create a CD-ROM with all call signs issued in the United States. [1] A copy of the CD-ROM is carried on board the International Space Station and one was also aboard the Russian Mir space station.
Russian nuclear icebreaker Arktika with call sign UKTY. Merchant and naval vessels are assigned call signs by their national licensing authorities. In the case of states such as Liberia or Panama, which are flags of convenience for ship registration, call signs for larger vessels consist of the national prefix plus three letters (for example, 3LXY, and sometimes followed by a number, e.g. 3LXY2).