Call alert in Canada is three, four or five letters long (excluding suffixes "-FM", "TV" or "-DT") and set for various broadcasters. The call sign is set internationally by ITU and nationally by the Canadian Industry, which governs all aspects of amateur radio in the country. It provides call signals, publishes amateur radio licenses, conducts exams, divides the frequency spectrum, and monitors radio waves.
The call signals generally start with "CB", "CF", "CH", "CI", "CJ", "CK", "VA" - "VG", "VO", "VX", "VY", or "XJ" - "XO". The "CB" series call is assigned to Chile by ITU, but Canada de facto uses this series for proprietary stations, but does not exclusively broadcast programs from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Some other prefixes, including "CG", "CY", "CZ" and the range "XJ" to "XO", are available. Conventional radio and television stations almost exclusively use the "C" call sign; with the few exceptions mentioned below, the "V" code is restricted to specific uses such as amateur radio.
Special broadcast activities such as Internet radio, FM cable, carrier flow stations or closed stations can sometimes be identified with unofficial call signs such as "CSCR". This is not governed by the Canadian media regulatory system, and sometimes reflects call alerts that will not be allowed on conventional broadcast platforms.
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The International Telecommunication Union has granted Canada the following call alert blocks for all radio, broadcast or transmission communications:
Though not directly related to a call mark, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has further divided all countries assigned amateur radio prefixes into three areas; Canada is located in Region 2 ITU.
These areas are subdivided into two overlapping zone systems: the ITU zone and the CQ zone.
The four-letter call sign is the norm. The three-letter call alert is only allowed for CBC Radio stations or commercial stations that already have a three-letter call mark before the current rules are adopted, and the five-letter call marks exclusively identify CBC transmitters (which can be either a re-broadcast or Ici Radio-Canada TÃÆ' Â © lÃÆ' Â © station owned and operated outside of Quebec).
Stations from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation tend to identify themselves as CBC Radio One/CBC Radio Two (English) or La PremiÃÆ'¨re ChaÃÆ'®nee/"Espace Musique" (from French) from a city, although they has an official three and four letter call. This is generally (but not always) starting with "CB".
The four digit digits preceded by "VF" (for radio) or "CH" (for television) are only assigned to very low-power local services, such as broadcast broadcasters or stations with limited interest similar to Section 15 operations in the United States ; The "VO" call signs can only be used commercially by stations in Newfoundland and Labrador that were licensed before the province joined the Canadian Confederation in 1949 (VOCM, VOAR and VOWR broadcast from St. John's long before the confederation). Only one station, VOCM-FM, was allowed to adopt the "VO" call mark after 1949. The VOCM was called because of its association with the AM station.
All Canadian FM stations have the "-FM" suffix, except for low power re-releases that have semi-numerical "VF" call sign. The high-power reset is generally licensed under the call sign from the original station, followed by numerical suffix and, for FM broadcasts from AM stations, the suffix "-FM". For example, CJBC-1-FM CJBC redirects (860 Toronto), while CJBC-FM-1 CJBC-FM re-broadcast (90.3 Toronto). However, some broadcast broadcasters may have their own distinct call marks. Canadian television stations always use "-TV" suffixes, with the exception of CBC stations that have call marks in the format "CB - (-) T". The Canadian digital transitional television business has a "-DT" suffix, even if the basic call sign is CBC/Radio-Canada O & amp; O in the pattern "CB (enter the third letter) T", "CB (enter the third letter) ET" or "CB (enter the third letter) FT" (respectively for English or French language television). For example, Ici Radio-Canada TÃÆ'Ã… © lÃÆ' Â © O & amp; O CBOFT-DT will represent "CBC Ottawa FranÃÆ'§ais TÃÆ' Â © lÃÆ' Â © vision - Digital Television". Canada does not use the "-LP" or "-CA" suffixes used in the United States but uses "-SW" limited to private shortwave radio stations.
For rebroadcasters that use numerical suffixes, the suffix usually follows a numerical sequence of 1-2-3, which indicates the chronological order in which the transmittercast replay is added. There are cases where television broadcasts are lit with channel numbers where broadcast broadcasts (eg, CIII-DT television re-broadcasts are numbered with their channel assignments instead of sequentially), but this is generally not the norm.
Experimental television stations in Canada have call alerts that begin with "VX9".
The prefix "CG" is used by Canadian Coast Guard stations and shipboard radio to shore on federal government vessels. The Coast Guard Radio Station also uses "VA" through "VF". Each vessel will use a call alert with a Canadian two-letter prefix (such as "CF", "CY", "CZ", "VB", "VC" or "VY") followed by a four-digit number. The aircraft is identified by a prefix such as "CF" or "CG" followed by three letters. Military permanent radio stations also have call marks in the "CF" - "CK", "CY" - "CZ", "VE" and "VX" - "VY" series. The Canadian weather station environment has three-letter and three-digit dialing alerts issued from various Canadian "C", "V", or "X" prefixes.
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Canadian amateur radio stations generally begin with "VE", "VA", or "VY". The numbers that follow these letters show the province, going from "VA1"/"VE1" to Nova Scotia, "VA2"/"VE2" (QuÃÆ' Â © bec), "VE3"/"VA3" (Ontario) through "VA7 "/" VE7 "for British Columbia and" VE8 "for the Northwest Territories, with the" VE9 "latecomer for New Brunswick. ("VE1" first for all three Maritime provinces.) "VE0" is for cellular amateur maritime transmission. "VY1" is used for Yukon Territory, "VY2" for Prince Edward Island, and "VY0" for Nunavut. "CY0" and "CY9" are Sable Island (population 5) and St. Island. Paul (uninhabited); with little or no local population, the reception of remote points is rare, although amateur radio stations operate temporarily from these islands during short wave radio contests. Special prefixes are often issued for stations that operate on important events.
The Dominion of Newfoundland "VO" prefix remains actively used by amateurs in the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, VO1AA over Signal Hill in St Johns being the most famous amateur station. Radio amateurs on Newfoundland Island use calls that begin with "VO1", while Labrador amateurs use "VO2". The popular backronym for station "VO" is "Voice of...", although the prefix has no official meaning.
There are 68,000 licensed operators in Canada with call sign. Canadian industry from the Canadian federal government handed out individual call signals to the amateur radio license. There are 24 possible 2-letter prefixes and 240 2-letter/1-number prefixes available to Canadian carriers based on ITU blocks (CF, CG, CH, CI, CJ, CK, CY, CZ, VA, VB, VC, VD, VE, VF, VG, VO, VX, VY, XJ, XK, XL, XM, XN, and XO). There is a potential of approximately 4.340,000 call alerts available in Canada.
From this prefix, 5 is currently assigned (CY, VA, VE, VO, and VY) for normal amateur radio operations. Industry Canada provides a regular call from 25 prefixes/blocks of numbers (eg VE1, CY9....). Other prefixes are assigned to special event operations for a limited period of time.
For Canadian amateur licenses, the suffix of radio call alerts typically consists of two or three letters, the first available only to amateurs who have been licensed for 5 years or more. Amateurs can only have one sign of a two-letter suffix call, but as many as three letters of suffix call the sign they want.
There are 18,252 possible combinations of two or three letters of suffix call alert per prefix. Canadian industry follows Article 19 of the ITU Radio Regulations by banning 156 combination-endings because they may be confused with a 3-letter communication signal (ie a Q-code) or any other combination that can be confused with distress signals. Recommendation ITU-R M.1172 lists mailing groups from QOA to QUZ as abbreviations and signals for use in radiotelegraphy communications. 'SOS' is also generally excluded, but long distress call 'CQD' can be allocated.
For occasional special events, 1-, 4-, or -5 letter suffixes may be assigned to licensed operators for a specified period of time.
Canada is assigned the # 1 DXCC entity, with the exception of Sable Is. and St.-Paul Is. which is a DXCC # 211 & amp; # 252 respectively. Call alert prefix issued according to the province or region where you live by the following table:
Custom event callmark
Canadian industry reserves the right to issue a temporary special event call sign to licensed amateurs using any other available prefix.
Typically, for licensed amateur or national-licensed observations add their suffix to the prefix of the special event assigned according to the following explanation. An amateur individual can apply for a specific callign event that has one of the 24 prefixes and corresponding suffixes associated with the event. For example, VA3OR receives a special CF3NAVY event call from June 4 to July 3, 2010 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Navy. In 1973 for a hundred years of RCMP, the VE3RCMP call mark was issued and used from the N division in Ottawa from April to November. The operators are all RCMP members who are also amateur radio operators.
For a special national event commemorating the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, from 1 February to 31 March 2010, amateurs can replace VG VA, VX for VE, XJ for VO, XK for VY so amateurs with VE3AAA call sign can use VX3AAA, or VY0AAA can use XK0AAA.
Calls with more than one number
Some special event call marks have been issued by Canadian Industry with more than one digit. For example, VE2008VQ was issued for the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec City from 28 June to 27 July 2008. Also, CG200I was issued for the 200th anniversary of the L'Ile Verte Lighthouse (Green Island), QuÃÆ' Â © bec.
Technically, the first digit is the prefix that separates the numbers from the suffix, and the rest is part of the suffix.
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Canadian provincial and territorial authority licensing authorities may issue license plates for amateur residents in their jurisdictions. In British Columbia, the ICBC application form clearly allows only call alerts starting with VE7 or VA7, but calls from other jurisdictions sometimes pass.
Reciprocal agreement with United States
Under reciprocal agreements between the United States and Canada, US citizens licensed by the FCC may use their call alerts in Canada as long as they affix their corresponding Canadian prefixes at the end of their American call signals. For example, a United States amateur with a W6AAA call alert operating in British Columbia will sign as W6AAA/VE7.
Call allocation history
The following paragraphs describe the history of amateur call allocation in Canada.
before 1913
Prior to 1913, amateur and experimental operators in Canada identified with the initials of their names.
1913
The first rule came in 1913 which requires operators to initiate call signs with "X" (for "experiments"), followed by the first letter of their surname. The last letter in the 3 letter code is given in alphabetical order when people sign up for a call sign.
The Radiotelegraphic Convention of Berlin and London in 1913 established VAA-VGZ blocks into Canada; However, amateur radio stations have not been part of this international letter scheme.
1920
In 1920 the previous number was added to the call to indicate the territory in Canada where the operator lived.
As international communications become more frequent, Canadian amateurs with the habit of placing the prefix 'C' in front of the numbers above, and Americans also use 'U' as the prefix. On February 1, 1927, European countries began using a two-letter prefix beginning with 'E' in front of their regional identification number. After that North American operator practices put 'N' in front of their calls, so the Canadian prefix becomes 'NC' and Americans use 'NU'. For example a British Columbia amateur would sign their transmission with the NC5 prefix.
1929
At the International Radiotelegraph Conference (Washington, 1927) Canada was awarded the ITU block CFA-CKZ and VAA-VGZ. It came into force on 1 January 1929 and amateur radio is now included in ITU's writing scheme. The amateur radio prefix used is 'VE' which replaces the prefix 'NC', since the N series has been allocated to the United States.
1946-1949
After World War II, the International Radio Conference (Atlantic City, 1947) met and perfected the international call sign blocks. Canada is issued with CFA-CKZ, CYA-CZZ, VAA-VGZ, VXA-VYZ, XJA-XOZ and 3BA-3FZ. This came into effect January 1, 1949. Block 3BA-3FZ finally reallocated between Mauritius, Equatorial Guinea, Swaziland Kingdom, Fiji, and Panama.
The Government of Canada reformats amateur call alerts based on this table.
1949-1999
In 1949 Newfoundland and Labrador joined Canada and the VOA-VOZ block of the prefix came with them. In 1954 the federal government made VE0 available to Canadian operators in international waters. Additions to the 1946 prefix are summarized as:
See also
- List of television stations in Canada with call sign
- International operation of amateur radio
- Canadian Radio Amateur
- The ITU prefix - an amateur and experimental station
- Amateur radio license
References
External links
- Industrial Canada
- Available Call Alert (CF-CK) of Canada Industry only
- Canadian Radio Amateur
- Amateur Radio du QuÃÆ' Â © bec
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