This is all very confusing about the date of T8 as the Palau prefix. I know it wasn't farther back than 1993 because I have several Palau KC6 cards from that time period and no T8 cards for Palau back then.
This page refers to January 1, 1994 as the starting date for acceptance of T8 as the prefix for Palau: http://www.arrl.org/awards/dxcc/dxcclist.txt At any rate, 1981 is long before any of these. I looked in my logs for any T8 stations around 1981 and didn't find any. I also looked for likely suspects for busted calls for T8UZA and didn't find any. So I'm no help there. BTW was it a CW or phone QSO? The Principality of Seborga must've only used the prefix for a short time in 1995. I have QSL's from several Seborga operations - the earliest used 1P as the prefix and later ones used T00. I guess I never worked a T8 from Seborga. 73, Zack W9SZ On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:57 AM, GERRY <[email protected]> wrote: > > From the DXCC PX cross reference: KC6 (before 1998) = T8 > > Gerry VE6LB > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Phil W9IXX <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Cc:* [email protected] ; [email protected] > *Sent:* Sunday, November 29, 2009 8:22 PM > *Subject:* Re: [DX-NEWS] Help with T8UZA from July 1981 > > Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > > On 11/28/2009 4:10 PM, Zack Widup wrote: > > > >> I didn't think Palau had the T8 prefix in 1981. I thought it was still > >> KC6 back then, up to about 2002. > >> 73, Zack W9SZ > > > > T8 was definitely used in 1997 (T88JA in March 1997 for instance), but > > I don't know how much earlier. > > > > - Jim > > > Hi, > Found this in the Bulletin: > >>>>>>> > *The Ohio/Penn Dx PacketCluster > DX Bulletin No. 275 > BID: $OPDX.275 > *October 21, 1996 > <snip> > *T8, REP. OF BELAU (ATTENTION PREFIX HUNTERS!). *Jim Hood, WV5S, > President of the Oklahoma DX Association has informed the DX/Contest > community of the following statement: "In 1994, Belau (Palau) declared > its independence from the USA. Consequently, the KC6 prefix needed to be > replaced by a new unassigned prefix. The prefix T8 has been assigned to > Belau. Oklahoma DX Association members N5OK and N5CG have now activated > the T8 prefix for the first time as T88T. > >>>>> > Hope this helps. > 73 Phil W9IXX > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to > > [email protected] > > In the message body put either > > unsubscribe dx-news > > or > > subscribe dx-news > > This is the DX-NEWS reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to > > [email protected] > > In the message body put either > > unsubscribe dx-news > > or > > subscribe dx-news > > This is the DX-NEWS reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org > ----------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [email protected] In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org -----------------------------------------------------------
