"Somebody Somewhere" wrote in message
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On Oct 17, 10:14 pm, Somebody Somewhere wrote:
I'm hearing a beacon IDing as WE2XGR/6 on about 507 KHZ. Anyone know
where it's located and what's up with the unusual ID?

Never mind. A Google search reveals that it's a 200 watt ham radio
"lowfer" in Pen Yan, NY. Interesting!

That is interesting. Not the lowfer part, but the call. Generally, the call
would indicate a region 2 licensed station operating in region 6 (IIRC,
region 2 is the NY area, region 6 is California).

"Somebody Somewhere" wrote in message
...
On Oct 17, 10:14 pm, Somebody Somewhere wrote:
I'm hearing a beacon IDing as WE2XGR/6 on about 507 KHZ. Anyone know
where it's located and what's up with the unusual ID?

Never mind. A Google search reveals that it's a 200 watt ham radio
"lowfer" in Pen Yan, NY. Interesting!

Brenda Ann wrote:

That is interesting. Not the lowfer part, but the call. Generally, the call
would indicate a region 2 licensed station operating in region 6 (IIRC,
region 2 is the NY area, region 6 is California).

Brenda, here is the answer:

WE2XGR is an -experimental- license for 500 kHz ham transmissions.

The /2 or /6 designators do NOT indicate the ham call area as you would
normally expect. Rather, they indicate the number of the station using
that particular experimental call.

To explain further (and these are just examples, not real calls):

W1ABC (in the first call area) is the operator of WE2XGR/14

W7XYZ (in the seventh call area) is the operator of WE2XGR/9

To summarize, even though your real ham call might be W1ABC and you live
in New England (first call district), when you are operating on the 500
kHz band, you would use WE2XGR/x, NOT your usual call of W1ABC. The /x
designator just shows that you are one of "x" number of operators using
the experimental call, NOT that you are geographically in the "x" call
district.

One final REAL example: There IS a legitimate station using WE2XGR/17
and yet as we all know, there is no 17th call district. It just means he
was the 17th person to sign up to participate in the experiment.

Hope this helps.

dave wrote:
You can pick whatever number you want for a Vanity callsign.

It's not a ham call. It's an experimental radio license (according to the
FCC):

WE2XGR WARREN H. ZIEGLER 0151-EX-PL-2007 New experimental to operate
in 505-510 kHz and 510-515 kHz for propagation studies and research of
LF communications systems.

The 6 means something else than what you thought, probably that this is
beacon number 6.

Usually stations of this type operate in several locations on a rotating
schedule.

Look up the 14.1 mHz beacon system. They operate across the world on a
rotating basis, with various power levels.

Geoff.

--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM

dave wrote:

Brenda Ann wrote:
"Somebody Somewhere" wrote in message
...
On Oct 17, 10:14 pm, Somebody Somewhere wrote:
I'm hearing a beacon IDing as WE2XGR/6 on about 507 KHZ. Anyone know
where it's located and what's up with the unusual ID?

Never mind. A Google search reveals that it's a 200 watt ham radio
"lowfer" in Pen Yan, NY. Interesting!

That is interesting. Not the lowfer part, but the call. Generally, the call
would indicate a region 2 licensed station operating in region 6 (IIRC,
region 2 is the NY area, region 6 is California).


You can pick whatever number you want for a Vanity callsign.

In a way, yes, however, being in the continental US one cannot pick a KH6
(Hawaii), KL7 (Alaska) or KP4 (Puerto Rico) vanity prefix, and I'm certain there
are other examples.

One could, if living in California, pick a W1, W3, N1, N3, or any other sort of
prefix, etc., that would apply to the continental USA.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

"Nick Danger" wrote in message
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"Somebody Somewhere" wrote in message
...
On Oct 17, 10:14 pm, Somebody Somewhere wrote:
I'm hearing a beacon IDing as WE2XGR/6 on about 507 KHZ. Anyone know
where it's located and what's up with the unusual ID?

Never mind. A Google search reveals that it's a 200 watt ham radio
"lowfer" in Pen Yan, NY. Interesting!

Brenda Ann wrote:

That is interesting. Not the lowfer part, but the call. Generally, the
call would indicate a region 2 licensed station operating in region 6
(IIRC, region 2 is the NY area, region 6 is California).

Brenda, here is the answer:

WE2XGR is an -experimental- license for 500 kHz ham transmissions.

The /2 or /6 designators do NOT indicate the ham call area as you would
normally expect. Rather, they indicate the number of the station using
that particular experimental call.

To explain further (and these are just examples, not real calls):

W1ABC (in the first call area) is the operator of WE2XGR/14

W7XYZ (in the seventh call area) is the operator of WE2XGR/9

To summarize, even though your real ham call might be W1ABC and you live
in New England (first call district), when you are operating on the 500
kHz band, you would use WE2XGR/x, NOT your usual call of W1ABC. The /x
designator just shows that you are one of "x" number of operators using
the experimental call, NOT that you are geographically in the "x" call
district.

One final REAL example: There IS a legitimate station using WE2XGR/17 and
yet as we all know, there is no 17th call district. It just means he was
the 17th person to sign up to participate in the experiment.

Hope this helps.

Thanks. Another example of similar but not quite the same.

On Oct 18, 5:10*pm, "Brenda Ann"
wrote:
"Nick Danger" wrote in message

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"Somebody Somewhere" wrote in message
....
On Oct 17, 10:14 pm, Somebody Somewhere wrote:
I'm hearing a beacon IDing as WE2XGR/6 on about 507 KHZ. Anyone know
where it's located and what's up with the unusual ID?

Never mind. A Google search reveals that it's a 200 watt ham radio
"lowfer" in Pen Yan, NY. Interesting!

Brenda Ann wrote:

That is interesting. Not the lowfer part, but the call. Generally, the
call would indicate a region 2 licensed station operating in region 6
(IIRC, region 2 is the NY area, region 6 is California).

Brenda, here is the answer:

WE2XGR is an -experimental- license for 500 kHz ham transmissions.

The /2 or /6 designators do NOT indicate the ham call area as you would
normally expect. Rather, they indicate the number of the station using
that particular experimental call.

To explain further (and these are just examples, not real calls):

W1ABC (in the first call area) is the operator of WE2XGR/14

W7XYZ (in the seventh call area) is the operator of WE2XGR/9

To summarize, even though your real ham call might be W1ABC and you live
in New England (first call district), when you are operating on the 500
kHz band, you would use WE2XGR/x, NOT your usual call of W1ABC. The /x
designator just shows that you are one of "x" number of operators using
the experimental call, NOT that you are geographically in the "x" call
district.

One final REAL example: There IS a legitimate station using WE2XGR/17 and
yet as we all know, there is no 17th call district. It just means he was
the 17th person to sign up to participate in the experiment.

Hope this helps.

- Thanks. *Another example of similar but not quite the same.

BAD -could- the inverse also be said to be true ?

Another example of the same but not quite similar.

one wonders . . . ~ RHF