Surprisingly Satisfying Suffix matching.

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On Sunday I made a qso from G/SP-017 Billinge hill with Marco IN3ADF on 20m.

Whilst no great DX , there was a surprising amount of satisfaction from working a call with the same suffix as myself (and it made writing in the log easier too :slight_smile: )

Anyone else managed this feat and should there be a badge for it? (if you donā€™t ask you dont get :slight_smile: )

I was wondering if there was any way to find out how many callsigns had been issued (or active) that had the same suffix. I did know a an M5ADF who lived in the same town as me, but I donā€™t think we ever worked each other.

Ian
G7ADF

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Hi Ian,

There a few ā€˜WU Clanā€™ members who participate in SOTA that iā€™ve had QSOs with: WU0A John in Colorado, WU7C Mike in Nevada, and @WU6X in CA.

Shout out to the rest of the WU Clan here on the Reflector with whom Iā€™ve not yet had the pleasure of QSOing with: @WU8R @WU3K @WU5F

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Yes, from time to time I work my amateur radio doppelgƤnger, Phil, G0JSB!

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Iā€™m MM0EFI and Brian, my Motorsport Recovery friend, is MM1EFI. He also has/had V8 Land Rovers. EFI is a nod to the original Range Rover 3.9l Vogue EFi (Electronic Fuel Injection) models from the early 90ā€™s.

Do I win a prize?

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On one hand, thatā€™s a nice thingā€¦

On the other hand, it can also cause problemsā€¦

When Iā€™m out and about as HB9/DL6GCA/Pā€¦ I sometimes have to repeat several times that Iā€™m not HB9CGA!

73 Armin

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I have to say I enjoyed a nice QSO with Bob VP8LP on the Falkland Islands - a couple of years ago and it is nice to have the same call suffix.

Ed DD5LP.

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I always thought it was for Extensible Firmware Interfaceā€¦but maybe thatā€™s just me.

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In the past VE3BAK and SP5BAK (follow link to the cards)
https://www.morsekey.net/qsl/VE3BAK-IK6BAK-14111990-20-SSB
SP5BAK QSL card to IK6BAK

'73 de ik6bak
www.morsekey.net

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When I started activating I was often confused with Marc G0AZS.
Iā€™m not sure if we ever had a QSO, though we probably didā€¦

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No, thatā€™s definitely just you.

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Well now you know what Iā€™m thinking when we have a QSO.

Turns out Iā€™ve worked F6ALX. Although his name isnā€™t Alex.

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Using an asterisk as a wildcard in a qrz.com search will give you a representative set.
It yields 203 matches for: ā€œ*ADFā€, 5 for ā€œM*ADFā€ and 4 for ā€œG*ADFā€

BTW: Anyone know how I can use an asterisk without it being treated as a control for text formatting?

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Yeah. Worked @M3EYP and @2E0EYP many times from summits. I expect I would have lots of endorsements on that badge.

Think Iā€™ve worked @HB9EYP a couple of times too.

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Yes but that was kinda contrived with Jimmy requesting the same suffix as yourself :slight_smile:

I guess you could also claim a sequential suffix too with Alan M1EYO.

Seems it happens quite frequently based on the replies to this thread.

Considering UK callsign allocations, there are 10 or so possibilities of ADF (thanks to G8CPZ method). If we assume each issuing country has the same amount (some will have more (USA) , some less) and there are 300 or so letter prefixes that about 3000 posibilites with the same suffix. Out of 2.7 million radio amateurs world wide, gives an approximate percentage of 0.1% or working someone with the same suffix. So for every 1000 unique callsigns worked, you would expect 1 with the same suffix.

Based on that , a relatively active person would expect to work someone with the same suffix at some point.

Obviously the calculations are based on some finger in the air approximations , but if anyone want to go down the rabbit hole of a more accurate calculation, then donā€™t let me stop you :slight_smile:

Ian

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Iā€™ve worked the two alpha suffixes before and two after my old B call. But FMF seems to be rare.

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Often \ is used to escape characters. Or you can use back ticks ` to put in inline code.

E.g. G\*CPZ renders as G*CPZ, also ā€œG*CPZā€ as is seems to work.

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It was a perfectly valid answer to your question!

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On QRZ.Com there are 111 matches for *KIO. Two of them are me M6 and 2E0. So 109 stations to try and workā€¦ The odds of working any of them are quite low, although a worked all Suffix award would be
MĢ¶oĢ¶nĢ¶oĢ¶tĢ¶oĢ¶nĢ¶oĢ¶uĢ¶sĢ¶ time consuming

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