Californiamama
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My husband enjoyed the hobby as a child with his grandpa back when they had to learn morse code. He got his license when he was 12. Now that he's getting back into it he was explaining about the personal call signs. Can someone explain why the numerical prefixes for each region don't seem logical? It begins with #1 up in Maine and go down the East coast then swing West (Ca is #6) then 7 goes East to Utah, but then region 8 is back by the great lakes and 9 and 0 head back west. Looking at the map I can't understand it. Do you? Only a ham will understand what I'm talking about. Please don't be rude, people.