K/W Calls Overseas
( Note all US Administered areas used W calls for novices, changed to K after upgrading)
KA# - US Forces in Japan Now JA (Foreigners now 7J)
KA1 was Phillipines now DU
KA2,3,4,5, and 8 for Honshu.
KA6 for Shikoku
KA7 for island of Kyusho
KA9 for Hokkaido
KA6 Ryukyu Islands, Okinawa
KA0 Iwo Jima. Now JD1
KB6 Baker/Canton/Howland/Am Pheonix Now KH1
KC4 Navassa Isle now KP1
KC6 Eastern Carolines (Kosrae, Chuuk, Pohnpei) - now V6
KC6 Western Carolines - Palau (Belau) now T8 (some KC6 calls survive)
KG1, XP1 - US Forces in Greenland Now OX
KG6 - Guam Now KH2 (some KG6 calls survive)
KG6IF - Marcus Island Now JD1 Minami Torishima
KG6IG,IJ - Bonin, Volcano Iwo Jima, Chichi Jima Now JD1 Ogasawara
KG6R - Rota Now KH0
KG6S - Saipan Now KH0
KG6T - Tinian Now KH0
KH6/KH7 - Kure Now KH7K
KJ6 - Johnston Is Now KH3
KM6 - Midway Now KH4
KP4 Desecheo now KP5
KP6 - Palmyra/Jarvis, Kingman Reef group Now KH5, KH5K
KR6 - Ryukyu Islands, Okinawa Now JR6
KR8 Non-US indigenous Okinawans
KS6 - American Samoa Now KH8 (some KS6 calls survive)
KT1 US forces in the Tangier Zone. Now CN
KV4 Virgin Is, Now KP2
KW6 - Wake Is Now KH9
KX6 - Marshall Is Now V7
KZ5 - Canal Zone Now HP
Old USA Callsigns
Pre & Early Post WWII
K4 Puerto Rico
K5 Canal Zone (also NY1 & NY2)
K6 Hawaiian Isles
K7 Alaska
KA1 Phillipines
KB4 Virgin Isle
KB6 Guam
KC4 Little America Antarctica
KC6 Wake Group
KD4 Swan Isl
KD6 Midway Isle
KE6 Johnston Isl
KF6 Baker, Howland & American Phoenix Isl.
KG6 Jarvis & Palmyra group
KH6 American Samoa
KS4 Swan Isle
NY4 Guantanamo Bay
CR3 Guinea Bissau now J5
CR4 Cape Verde now D4
CR5 Principe, Sao Thome now S9
CR5 Portugese Guinea
CR6 Angola now D2
CR7 Mozambique now C9
CR9 Macao now XX9
CT2 Azores now CU
EA9 Rio de Oro
EA0 Equatorial Guinea now 3C
EK Tangier Zone
FA, FB, FC, FD, FE, FF France
FA Algeria now 7X
FB8 Madagascar now 5R
FB8W,X,Y,Z now FT
FC9 Corsica now TK
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FD8 French Togoland now 5V
FE8 French Cameroons now TJ
FI8 French Indo China
FL Afars and Issas Terr. now J2
FL8 French Somaliland
FT4 Tunisia now 3V
FU8 New Hebrides now YJ
GC now GJ or GU
H5 Bophutatswana = ZS
HM before 1982 now HL
I6 Eritrea now E3
J8 Chosen (Korea)
J9 Taiwan now BV
See Left Column for Old K Calls
M1, 9A San Marino now T7
MP4B Bahrain now A9
MP4D,T UAE now A6
MP4M Oman now A4
MP4Q Qatar now A7
MX Manchukuo
NY4 Guantanamo Bay
OQ Belgian Congo now 9Q
PJ Aruba now P4
PX Andorra now C3
S4 Ciskei = ZS
S8 Transkei = ZS
T4 Venda = ZS
UB Ukraine now EM
UC Byelorussia now EU
UD Azerbaijan now 4K
UF Georgia now 4L
UG Armenia now EK
UH Turkmenia now EZ
UI Uzbekistan see UJ
UJ Tadjikistan now EY
UL Kazakhstan now UN
UM Kirghizia now EX
UO Moldavia now ER
UP Lithuania now LY
UQ Latvia now YL
UR Estonia now ES
V9 Venda = ZS
VK4 Papua Territory
VK9 Nauru now C2
VP1 British Honduras now V3
VP2A Antigua, Barbuda Now V2
VP2D Dominica now J7
VP2G Grenada now J3
VP2K Saint Kitts, Nevis now V4
VP2L St. Lucia now J6
VP2S Saint Vincent now J8
VP3 British Guyana now 8R
VP4 Trinidad now 9Y
VP5 Jamaica now 6Y
VP5E Anguilla now VP2E
VP6 Barbados now 8P
VP7 Bahamas now C6A
VQ2 North Rhodesia now 9J
VQ3 Tanganyika Terr now 5H
VQ4 Kenya now 5H
VQ5 Uganda now 5X
VQ8 Mauritius now 3B
VQ8 Chagos now VQ9
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VQ9 Seychelles now S7
VR1 Gilbert, Ellice & Ocean Isles now T3
VR2 Fiji now 3D2
VR2 Hong Kong now VS6
VR3, VR7 Northern Line Islands
now T32
VR4 Solomon Islands now H4
VR5 Tonga now A3
VR6 Pitcairn Isle now VP6
VR8 Tuvalu now T2
VS1 Singapore now 9V
VS1 Straits Settlements
VS2 Federated Malay States
VS3 Non-Federated Malay States
VS4 British No Borneo now 9M6
VS5 Brunei now V8
VS7 Ceylon now 4S
VS8 Bahrein Islands
VS9K Kamaran Isle
VS9M Maldives now 8Q
VS9O Oman now A4
VX9 Sable Isle
VY0 Saint Paul Isle
XU China now BA
XX7 Mozambique now C9
YM Danzig
YU2 Croatia now 9A
YU3 Slovenia now S5
YT4, YU4, YZ4 Bosnia now T9
YT5, YU5 Macedonia now Z3
YZ5 Macedonia now Z3
ZB1 Malta now 9H
ZC1 Trans Jordan
ZC2 Cocos Isle now VK9C
ZC3 Christmas Is now VK9X
ZC4 Cyprus now 5B
ZC6 Palestine now E4
ZD1 Sierra Leone now 9L
ZD2 Nigeria now 5N
ZD3 Gambia now C5
ZD5 Swaziland now 3DA
ZD6 Nyasaland now 7Q
ZE South Rhodesia now Z2
ZK9 Niue Is now ZK2
ZM Tokelaus now ZK3
ZM6 Western Samoa now 5W
ZM7 Tokelaus now ZK3
ZS3 SW Africa now V5
ZS4 Basutoland now 7P
ZS7 Swaziland now 3D6
ZS8 Lesotho now 7P
ZS9 Botswana now A2
ZU9 Tristan Da Cunha now ZD9
1B Northern Cyprus ( unofficial)
1B Chechnya (maybe unofficial)
1S Spratly Island now 9M0
1Z9 Karen Nat Union SW Burma (Unofficial)
4J1F Malyj Vysotskij now R1MV
4K1 Old USSR Antarctic Prefix 4K2 Franz Jo Land now R1FJ
4K3 now UA
4K4 now UA0
4N4 , 4O4 Bosnia now T9
4N5, 4O5 Macedonia now Z3
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