[Tai Pan]

GUJ Jersey (British Rail Station)
SUQ Suez Canal
VTF. Vigazapatam

[hawkey01]

Well as I have surfaced from deepest Spain I better get back into the action.

Moulder, I believe Muscat was either GNM or GNW.

Also one that all the OBS vessels should remember from the Gulf - 2AI15 which was Das Island, cannot remember what it bacame later.
Another station that never seemed to be there even when anchored off was
5OW - Lagos. Even called him on full power with the Crusader one time on the Aureol while anchored off without a reply.



Another thing with the site I am having some very strange happenings with delays in the type appearing on the screen any ideas why??

Hawkey01

[K urgess]

If that's as your typing, Hawkey01, then it's more than likely your computer doing something in the background.
If it's taking it's time when you click submit/post quick reply then it's probably the net on go slow again.

Kris

[BA204259]

Here's some goodies:-

Chatham (Mass) WCC

Amagansett (NY) WSL

Ojus (FL) WAX

Slidell (LA) WNU

Halifax (NS) CFH

Vancouver (BC) CKN

San Francisco (CA) KFS

I think I'm right in saying that all the big US ports had both RCA and Mackay radio stations. Being with IMR I was expected to work into the Mackay stations, eg WSL on the eastern seaboard and KFS or KOK (LA) on the west coast. Further south, stations like Slidell (Louisiana) WNU were United Fruit Co. (or associated with them). It's a long time ago and I stand to be corrected, but pretty sure I'm right.

Just come to mind, the old c/s for Singapore and Hong Kong were VPW and VPS respectively.

[hawkey01]

Hi Kris,

yep I suppose that is most likely. It is running Ok this time. I must take more water with it.

Neville - Hawkey01

[R58484956]

LGS Svalbard
VRX Daguilar

[hawkey01]

Kris,

On another topic - when and why did Aviation nostalgia close? Was it lack of
members?

Neville

[Moulder]

Originally Posted by Marconi Sahib

..........

Anyone remember who HNT was up the PGulf?.......

Hi Kris,

Must have been a Saudi station? I remember HZY was Rastanura - Was it Dammam? If I also remember rightly these stations were operated by ARAMCO - Arab American Oil Company.

[BA204259]

Gibraltar ZDK

Aden ZNR

Originally Algiers was FFA then changed to 7TA.

[K urgess]

Originally Posted by hawkey01

Kris,

On another topic - when and why did Aviation nostalgia close? Was it lack of
members?

Neville

Yes, Neville.
It disappeared last week or the week before I think it was.
Lack of support.
I was winding up to post some pictures when I got chance but it vanished before I could.
A pity because there's nowt else like it that I've found yet.

Cheers
Kris

[K urgess]

The trip I used HNT we went to Khora and Mina so it could have been Khora or wherever was closest, Moulder.

[K urgess]

Dakar was 6VA

[Trevorw]

We seem to be missing 'B' and 'Q'.
B was allocated to China: Nationalist or Communist, I can't remember, but they were all four letters, i.e. ships, not coast stations.
Q, I don.t think you will ever find. I suspect it was never allocated. Too close a resemblance to the Q Code. Imagine a South African coast station being given the call sign QSA!

[K urgess]

On my first trip the chief sparks and I had a competition about who heard the most and furthest stations on 500.
I've still got the list and there's not a single B amongst them.
Theres even a Wikipedia entry for it - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_sign

[Trevorw]

Originally Posted by Marconi Sahib

On my first trip the chief sparks and I had a competition about who heard the most and furthest stations on 500.
I've still got the list and there's not a single B amongst them.
Theres even a Wikipedia entry for it - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_sign

B was definitely Chinese, (one or the other)
If your such an authority, tell me which ships had a three character call sign!?

[K urgess]

I thought mainland China was X.
I've got China having XSG, XSQ, XRK, XUQ but on H/F sending weather.
I do have Taiwan with BMB sending weather on H/F.
Which leads nicely into 3 letter ship callsigns like 4YA, 4YB, 4YC, 4YD, 4YE.
All North Atlantice weather ships Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta and Echo.
Not sure if there were more but those were the only ones I QSOd with OBS.

Cheers
Kris

[sparkie2182]

i have had lots of things missing from b&q

[BA204259]

Originally Posted by R651400

If FFA was Algiers who was FGA, possibly Dakar?

Senegal became independent from France in 1960. Prior to that time the c/s of Dakar radio would very likely have been FGA (I can't remember) and following independence would have changed to 6VA as mentioned by Marconi Sahib.

Also comes to mind the Israeli station (Haifa?) c/s 4XO.

[Moulder]

I also associate the first letter B with mainland China but just cannot recall any callsigns.

Hang on though - I do remember hearing BLX sent a few times but was nowhere near China when I heard it.

[King Ratt]

Another Persian Gulf station that comes to mind was EPY8 which I think was Khorramshahr

[Moulder]

Who was EQK as this springs to mind for the Gulf area as well.

[King Ratt]

Another PG c/s, YIR, which was Basra.

[Moulder]

Originally Posted by Trevorw

We seem to be missing 'B' and 'Q'.
B was allocated to China: Nationalist or Communist, I can't remember, but they were all four letters, i.e. ships, not coast stations.
Q, I don.t think you will ever find. I suspect it was never allocated. Too close a resemblance to the Q Code. Imagine a South African coast station being given the call sign QSA!

Just had a recap and post 2 came up with BSN - Hankow Radio.

[BA204259]

Originally Posted by Moulder

Hang on though - I do remember hearing BLX sent a few times but was nowhere near China when I heard it.

Usually in the Silence Period?

[Moulder]

Originally Posted by BA204259

Usually in the Silence Period?

Yeah - thats it! Think it meant Been Listening