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19IR04/EU-1462005-01-01-2005 to 12-31-05 EU-14619

175IR/02005-02-202005-06-20-14IR0011

265IR0012004-01-010000-00-00OC-0431

320/224IR0112005-01-012005-12-31OC-0181I
R7492

320IR0012004-01-010000-00-00OC-0181

What the heck are those? Made up

callsigns???

(yep, self assigned cb calls. the first number is the country number,
then the IR is the club name, then the number after that is the member
number. they have their own dxcc awards to give themselves and iota and
all that stuff for illegal activity.)



Last I checked it wasn't illegal in all places.
Some of the countries that participate have no laws at all governing
those frequencies and those that do have less enforcement than the US.
There are some really cool dx cards to be had among the world. And
unlike the next step up, there are always folks on (what is known as the
HF cb freeband in the US) these freqs ready to make contact. Unless a
contest is kicking on the hammie freqs, you're going to wait a long time
to get a fraction of the contacts you get here.