The longest suffixes: six and seven characters
Special callsigns may carry up to seven characters in the suffix — ELEFANT, BWACH, SCHLEI, TESLA. More on the special stations page.
That’s all 12 — the complete list, nothing left out.
One notch shorter: five characters
Right below the very longest suffixes: special callsigns with exactly five characters in the suffix, e.g. SCOUT, CRACY, SEVEN.
That’s all 12 — the complete list, nothing left out.
And one notch shorter still: four characters
Special callsigns with exactly four characters in the suffix — mostly club or event abbreviations like BBQ, RIG, NRW.
That’s all 31 — the complete list, nothing left out.
Palindromes
Callsigns that read the same backwards. Almost every prefix-digit combination has exactly one — DL1LD, DK5KD, DO7OD.
That’s all 92 — the complete list, nothing left out.
Triple letters
AAA is the classic — but there are also ZZZ, WWW, HHH and a lonely NNN.
That’s all 104 — the complete list, nothing left out.
Suffix = prefix
Twice is nice: DA1DA, DC1DC, DL9DL.
That’s all 103 — the complete list, nothing left out.
Alphabet runs
ABC, DEF, XYZ — suffixes nobody forgets.
That’s all 47 — the complete list, nothing left out.
Ham vocabulary in the suffix
DX, CQ, CW, HAM, YL, OHM, MHZ … How often does ham jargon hide in a callsign? Counted across all prefixes.
DX 102
KW 93
CW 92
FM 87
AM 87
DL 78
DE 70
GL 69
OM 65
YL 64
LW 56
TU 50
HZ 47
CQ 44
HAM 34
SAT 26
UKW 16
ANT 15
SHF 15
SSB 14
The shortest: one letter
Callsigns with a single letter after the digit are coveted — contest stations love them. By prefix:
Show all 402
Most popular suffixes
Which letter combination appears most often across all prefixes and digits? Initials are popular — and DX, of course.
Favourite digit
The 1 wins by a wide margin — historically it was the first freely selectable digit. The 0 is reserved for club stations and repeaters.
The fullest two-letter blocks
Per prefix and digit there are 676 possible two-letter suffixes (AA–ZZ). Where is almost everything taken?
The DC1AS neighbourhood
The DC1A? block — 18 of 26 two-letter callsigns are assigned, plus 16 three-letter ones.
That’s all 34 — the complete list, nothing left out.
All callsigns come from the public BNetzA list (as of 14 September 2026). Only callsigns are shown — no names, no addresses, no lookup.