Re: [HCDX]: 'V' stations in Canada

[Ralph Brandi <ralph@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> My question is simple.Back in the 60's when I began MW dxing,I used to
> see a handful of far  north-eastern Canadian MW stations having a V
> prefix for some stations.They were usually in some far flung local like
> NEWFOUNDLAND or in Gander,etc ( VOOM,VOAR).....Do these still
> exist.These to me were the height of really cool MW dxing back
> then.....and those 20 watt Inuit stations in the Northwest Territories.

This is a holdover from when Newfoundland was independent. 
Newfoundland only joined Canada in 1949; before that, it was its own 
country, and had its own call signs.  Stations that existed before 
confederation were grandfathered in and allowed to keep their old 
calls.

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