Back in the late 60's or early 70's I worked a stations signing 9K2S on 40 CW one night. Another ham worked him and then the two of us got into a chat on the air about whether it was a pirate or not.
I wanted a QSL but didn't know of a QSL route. I still don't know to this day if he was a pirate or not. I've since worked and confirmed 9K on just about every band but 160. Still, the mystery remains ... 73 Zack W9SZ On 8/14/11, John Warren <n...@texas.net> wrote: > > By the way, in answer to my question yesterday, VT1 was the first > post-WWII prefix for Kuwait. > > The Brits initially administered Kuwait from India, so they assigned > it a prefix out of the Indian block. Shortly thereafter, it was > transferred to British military government, and got a prefix in the > MP4 block which they used throughout the Persian Gulf, specifically > MP4K. (For example, MP4B = Bahrain, MP4Q = Qatar, etc, except that > the troops moved around, so MP4 soon became a jumbled mess!). > Finally, when Kuwait gained its independence, it became the 9K we know > today. > > 73, John, NT5C. > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to > > imail...@njdxa.org > > 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 > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org 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 -----------------------------------------------------------
