BrazilPY3: Rio Grande do Sul
Callsigns beginning with PY3 were issued in Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil. The same area appears in the series PU3.
Call area
The AD1C country file places PY3 calls in CQ zone 11. Brazil spans CQ zones 11 and ITU zones 12, 13, 15, and a call keeps its area when its holder moves: ask the station for its zone.
How call areas work in Brazil
In Brazil the digit is a region and the letter pair a state: PY2 is São Paulo, PP5 Santa Catarina, PT7 Ceará. PY covers the main state of each digit, and PP, PQ, PR, PS, PT, PV and PW the others; PU is the novice class on the same digits as PY.
Fernando de Noronha (PY0F), St. Peter and St. Paul Rocks (PY0S) and Trindade and Martim Vaz (PY0T) are separate DXCC entities. ANATEL does not publish a current table, so the secondary pairs are indicative. Brazil spans ITU zones 12, 13 and 15.
Portable and moved stations
Operators away from home often add a suffix such as /P or the number of the area they are in, and many keep a PY3 call after moving. For awards the place of operation counts, so the prefix is a strong hint, not proof.
Other call areas of Brazil
- PY1 Rio de Janeiro
- PP1 Espírito Santo
- PY2 São Paulo
- PP2 Goiás
- PT2 Distrito Federal
- PQ2 Tocantins
- PY4 Minas Gerais
- PY5 Paraná
- PP5 Santa Catarina
- PY6 Bahia
- PP6 Sergipe
- PY7 Pernambuco
- PP7 Alagoas
- PR7 Paraíba
- PS7 Rio Grande do Norte
- PT7 Ceará
- PY8 Pará
- PP8 Amazonas
- PQ8 Amapá
- PR8 Maranhão
- PS8 Piauí
- PT8 Acre
- PV8 Roraima
- PW8 Rondônia
- PY9 Mato Grosso
- PT9 Mato Grosso do Sul