G2DXU - A brief history.

When I joined the Watcombe Amateur Radio Club around 1 year ago my basic intention was to take all three exams required to gain the full license, here in the UK, this means you would then receive an M0xxx callsign.


Another new member also joined around the same time as myself looking to take the exams, his name is Alan, our backgrounds are very different, but it mattered not as having the same goal and interests meant that we helped and encouraged each other, so we went from SWL to full callsigns in under 10 months.


Alan had a relative, a silent key, Robert lever, who sadly passed away in 2007, Bob had served in the RAF during WW2. Bob’s callsign was G2DXU. The G2DXU had originally been issued as 2DXU, an Artificial Aerial Licence, sometime between 1920 and 1939. In 1946 these licences were re-issued as Full Licences with the G prefix. 


Alan spoke with Robert's wife and she kindly agreed to let Alan use the G2 call, all Alan had to do then was pass all three exams and apply to the RSGB, which he did, and now the paperwork has come through, he is the proud owner of G2DXU !


As the G2xxx call pre-dates the 2nd World War, it certainly is a rare callsign, I have only ever heard one other G2 on the air.


Good luck to you Al with the G2, that is one pile-up generating call if I ever heard one..

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