Callsign prefixes
Exsp33rdb1rd said:
>All Radio Hams used to have a callsign that started with G in the UK, and 9V >in Singapore, VH in Australia, ZK in New Zealand, etc. and the aircraft now >follow suit, but I don't doubt some other bureacracy has taken over, and >the CAA will assign 'private' call-signs according to the protocols already >mentioned, in the manner of personalised number plates on cars, I guess.
We still do. I am from Canada. VE or VA are hams in Canada, Military a/c have VC callsigns, but Canadian civil aviation have CF or CG
Broadcast stations used to follow the same policy, but marketing mavens having taken over all aspects of life to the detriment of sanity, they now call themselves by a slogan, i.e. CKFM now calls itself MIX-99, which to my way of thinking is a British callsign. CJRT now calls itself JAZZ-FM, which should be Japanese.
Don't try to make any sense out of it, you will go mad!
If you listen to "Tony Hancock, the Radio Ham" you will hear a lot of callsigns that don't make any sense at all.