Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!ames!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!gryphon!vector!telecom-gateway From: wales@cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Radio Station Names (Wxxx - Kxxx) Message-ID: Date: 8 Sep 89 23:34:12 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Rich Wales Organization: UCLA CS Department, Los Angeles Lines: 23 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 360, message 2 of 7 In article mcvax!irst.it!bellutta@uunet.uu.net (Paolo Bellutta) writes: You can find a complete list in a number of Amateur Radio publications, such as the ARRL Logbook and the Callbooks. ITU prefixes are allocated in three-character blocks, although usually only the first one or two characters is significant. . . . How countries make use of these is up to them. Canada uses Cxxx for broadcast, but VE for most Amateur. Canada has been allocated the following prefixes: CFA-CKZ; CYA-CZZ; VAA-VGZ; VOA-VOZ; VXA-VYZ; and XJA-XOZ. Interestingly, radio and TV stations of the Canadian Broadcasting Cor- poration (CBC) have call letters starting with CB -- even though the prefixes CBA-CBZ belong not to Canada, but to Chile. (Other Canadian radio and TV stations have call letters starting with CF through CK.) -- Rich Wales // UCLA Computer Science Department // +1 (213) 825-5683 3531 Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, California 90024-1596 // USA wales@CS.UCLA.EDU ...!(uunet,ucbvax,rutgers)!cs.ucla.edu!wales "Work _for_?!? I don't work _for_ anybody! I'm just having fun."