Author: Alan 5B4AHJ
Immediately after the end of WWII, British and American members of the Allied Central Mediterranean Forces in the European side of the Mediterranean were issued with temporary callsigns comprising four letters, commencing XA. A few XA stations were qrv from North Africa.
The XA callsigns were soon replaced by 'normal' callsigns. For example, XAFD became MB9AM and XAGA became SV0AC .
The November 1945 RSGB Bulletin reports that a QSO made by XAZO with XAAA on 1945-10-27 at 1640 GMT was "the first legitimate amateur contact to be made in that theater".
The latest activity that I have come across by an XA call is by XAFQ on 1948-04-30 (tnx SM6JSM-SSA Archivist)..
The XAAA-XAAZ series of calls were mostly issued to US personnel.
The December 1945 RSGB Bulletin reports: "News has been received that these C.M.F stations art to operate on 28 and 56 Mc/s only.
The following Summary by DXCC list is taken from the December 1945 RSGB Bulletin, Fall 1947 and Winter 1947-48 editions of the Radio Amateur Call Book Magazine, and from the Dokufunk page XA - Amateur Radio Allied Forces of 1944-48, from G2MI's "The Month on the Air" column in the RSGB Bulletin, and from documents supplied by G4UZN.
 Summary By DXCC QSLs required for all callsigns without a blue link, please. AUSTRIA XABG (also Italy) XAEU XAFD XAFW CORSICA XAAX DODECANESE XABU (also Egypt) EGYPT XABU (also Dodecanese)GREECE XAAP XABK XABL XABR XABW XABX XABY XACD XACR XACV XACW XAFK (also Italy) XAFO XAFP XAGA ITALY XAAA XAAB XAAC XAAD XAAE XAAF XAAG XAAJ XAAK XAAL XAAM XAAN XAAO XAAP XAAQ XAAR XAAT XAAU XAAV XAAW XAAX XAAY XAAZ XABB XABC XABF XABG (also Austria) XABO XABZ XACA XACJ XACK XACO (also Libya) XACT XACY (also Trieste) XACZ XADB XADC XADJ XADO XADP XADR XADT XADU XADW XADZ XAEA XAEB XAEF XAEH XAEJ XAEK (also Trieste) XAEL XAEM XAEN XAEO XAEP XAET XAEU XAEV XAEX XAEY XAFA XAFE XAFF XAFG (also Trieste) XAFH XAFK (also Greece) XAFL XAFM XAFS XAFT XAFU XAFX XAFY XAGC XAGD XAGE XAGF XAGG XAGI XAGL XAGM XAGN XAGW XAHV XAEG XAKM (also Trieste) XAMB XAMC XAMT XAPQ XARM XAYM XAYS XAZO XAZO LIBYA XACO (also Italy) SARDINIA XAAY XACP TRIESTE XACY (also Italy) XADDXAEG XAEK (also Italy) XAFG (also Italy) XAFQ XAGB XAKM (also Italy) XAMC UNKNOWN XABJ XAFJ XAFN | Later callsign MB9AM D2JY MD5BO SV0AC G6ZO MF2AA | Radio Amateur Call Book FALL 1947
| RSGB Bulletin September 1946 RSGB Bulletin November 1945 RSGB Bulletin December 1945  Radio Amateur Call Book WINTER 1947-48  |
Related articles:
Eric Lund, SM6JSM - SSA Archivist
Gérard Debelle, F2VX
RSGB Bulletin
This page may contain information that is the copyright property of a third party. Images or other material displayed on this page is done so for archival and reference purposes, and is not intended to infringe the rights of the owners. Where unattributed content is displayed, owners are invited to send attribution notes to Alan 5B4AHJ or, if they are the exclusive holder of the rights to the content, to ask for the content to be withdrawn from Club Log's archive. All other parties referring to archival content in Club Log are reminded to retain attribution notes and to obtain permission to use the content where appropriate.