Re: [HCDX] Russian ham calls

["Dmitry Mezin" <dm65@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Eike,

Both "Vasilij" and "Viktor" stand for W. Maybe you know that Latin V in
Morse code corresponds to Russian Zh -- a letter that is not present in
English/German alphabets. So, Zh is encoded as "Zhenya", "Zhuk", maybe
something else.

Best regards, poka, 73!
Dmitry

> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 00:07:16 +0200 (MEST)
> From: capercaillie@xxxxxxx
> To: hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [HCDX] Russian ham calls
>
> Hi there, privyet russkim,
>
> one question to our Russian friends: When Russian hams are giving their
> callsign (in Russian language), how do they distinguish between the
letters V and
> W?  After some listening I thought "Vasilij" is for one of them and
"Viktor"
> for the other, but I don't know how to tell...
>
> Thanks for the info, spasiba za pomoshch',
>
> Eike


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