Originally Posted by
chimbu warrior
I vaguely recall a proposal some years ago (maybe mid-90's) to change the Australian prefix from VH- to V-.
The Canadians did this 40-odd years ago, and changed from CF- to C-, thus freeing up thousands of new possibilities.
As I see it, starting a VI- prefix would only cause confusion; what if VH-ABC and VI-ABC are on the same frequency at the same time?
What is so damn sacred about VH, it was just an arbitrary code allocated by the British on our behalf when they were still running half the show, even though we were allegedly an 'independent' Commonwealth. Just adopt A-XXXX and be done with it. Allow combinations of alpha-numerics. If the world was serious, the registration marks should be the ISO code for the country, followed by whatever combination of letters and numbers you want - e.g. Australia would become "AU-XXXX" or "AU-1X1X", etc. etc. and be done with it. The US would become "US------:.