Thread: Good news for Hams who want to celebrate the Royal Wedding..
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Old 25-04-2011, 19:46   #6
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Re: Good news for Hams who want to celebrate the Royal Wedding..
Did you apply for your NOV Kymmy? Put my application in this morning.

The relevance is that R is for "Royal", other than that nothing really, it will attract a bit of activity in that some Hams treat callsigns the same way trainspotters collect numbers. It's one way for the UK ham community to celebrate the occasion.

EDIT:

Hom3r, every Ham worldwide has a callsign unique to them issued by whatever regulatory body looks after the RF spectrum in that country. Callsigns generally follow the format of a country prefix, a number/numbers, and three letters, for example my callsign starts with M1, M being one of the designated identification letters for the UK(the others being G and 2), with the Royal wedding prefix added, the start of my callsign will become MR1.

EDIT 2:

Kymmy, I saw/heard that news article today, the sound quality is awful, not to mention that on the first bit of SSB featured, either the Ham involved couldn't tune a SSB signal, or the BBC didn't give them time to tune it in. Not sure it was the best PR in the world for us.
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