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From: munnari!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!miw@uunet.uu.net (Mark Williams)
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Subject: Re: Australian Broadcast Call Signs
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Date: 24 Sep 89 08:20:17 GMT
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henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) writes:

>They are all under VK (i.e., the FM station 4GGG on Australia's gold
>coast has a call sign of VK4GGG).  The number indicates (mostly)
>which state the station is in (1=Tasmania , 2=New South
>Wales, 3=Victoria, 4=Queensland, and I don't know the rest :>)

	I think this is slightly incorrect. The Radio Australia short
wave stations are VLM4 and VLQ9.

Mark Williams