Announcement: From today on I will use the callsign PA6G in contests. It is shorter and especially for CW much easier to decode.
Many know about our efforts with PA6AA as contestgroup. We did the first historical "explorer" section in the CQWW SSB 2023 in the Netherlands. The explorer section is now called multi-distributed like in the CQWW WPX contest. This also led to a discussion if this was a legal way to use one callsign on several locations. At first we had permission. But later on we got the message that it was illigal. Unfortunately this led to many discussions and some cancellations which also involved other special event- and conteststations. We still try to convince our government to change the rules.
PA6AA still exists and is the contest callsign of PB7Z. Another member PA5OES now has the contest callsign PA6F. Since I noticed some stations have trouble with my callsign in CW I thought of a shorter call for contesting. PA6G is sounding nice in CW in my opinion. G is the first letter of my province Groningen. As written on the QRZ page of PA6G I will only do digital QSL for this callsign.
2 comments:
Good morning Bas, very interesting are you able to get another call other than the one you have now? I am not sure we can do that here unless it is for a special event call.
73,
Mike
VE9KK
It is essentially an SES call. I can use both calls. It lasts only for a year. I need to request the call again next year. 73, Bas
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