Hi Eike, Both "Vasilij" and "Viktor" stand for W. Maybe you know that Latin V in Morse code corresponds to Russian Zh -- a letter that is not present in English/German alphabets. So, Zh is encoded as "Zhenya", "Zhuk", maybe something else.
Best regards, poka, 73! Dmitry > Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 00:07:16 +0200 (MEST) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [HCDX] Russian ham calls > > Hi there, privyet russkim, > > one question to our Russian friends: When Russian hams are giving their > callsign (in Russian language), how do they distinguish between the letters V and > W? After some listening I thought "Vasilij" is for one of them and "Viktor" > for the other, but I don't know how to tell... > > Thanks for the info, spasiba za pomoshch', > > Eike ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Check out HCDX 2.0 beta: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www2.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
