WELL!!! This was a very STRANGE Spot, but right for the times!!! I wonder how he got this to show up

Robert Lonn

Neil D Friedman N3DF

I have worked several foreign amateurs with "stayhome" suffixes on FT8.

http://www.arrl.org/news/use-of-special-call-sign-suffixes-in-the-us-during-covid-19-pandemic

KY6LA_Howard

I worked him

There are also several Calls such as YB2STAYHOME, CT1STAYHOME

Robert Lonn

OK Thanks Neil!!!

Phil N3ZP

I have also seen lots of spots with calls ending "STAYHOME". It's a good reminder.

Neil D Friedman N3DF

Why are you running only 90 watts?

Robert Lonn

Neil, I am Saving the 10 watts for those DX Pile Ups when I need to break through the log jam!!!! :-) 

Craig_KØCF

This is from today's OPDX bulletin:

SPECIAL STAY AT HOME STATIONS/ACTIVITIES (Update). Many more special event stations have hit the airwaves (or soon will be) to promote individuals to "STAY-AT-HOME" and raise awareness for the restrictions necessary to fight the spread the coronavirus. Here is a checklist of stations announced to be active:
  5B4STAYHOME (Cyprus)                  OH5PYSYKOTONA (Finland)
  8A1HOME (Indonesia)                   OH6PYSYKOTONA (Finland)
  8A1STAYHOME (Indonesia)               OH7PYSYKOTONA (Finland)
  9K9STAYHOME (Kuwait)                  OH8PYSYKOTONA (Finland)
  A6ØSH/1 [SH=StayHome] (U.A.E.)        OH9PYSYKOTONA (Finland)
  A6ØSH/2 United Arab Emirates          OHØSTAYHOME (Finland)
  A6ØSH/3 United Arab Emirates          OH1STAYHOME (Finland)
  A6ØSH/4 United Arab Emirates          OH2STAYHOME (Finland)
  A6ØSH/5 United Arab Emirates          OH3STAYHOME (Finland)
  A6ØSH/6 United Arab Emirates          OH4STAYHOME (Finland)
  A6ØSH/7 United Arab Emirates          OH5STAYHOME (Finland)
  A6ØSH/8 United Arab Emirates          OH6STAYHOME (Finland)
  A6ØSH/9 United Arab Emirates          OH7STAYHOME (Finland)
  A6ØSH/1Ø United Arab Emirates         OH8STAYHOME (Finland)
  A6ØSH/11 United Arab Emirates         OH9STAYHOME (Finland)
  A6ØSH/12 United Arab Emirates         OR2STAYHOME (Belgium)
  AX2Ø2ØSTAYHOME (Australia)            OR8STAYHOME (Belgium)
  CR2STAYHOME (Azores)                  OT2STAYHOME (Belgium)
  CT1STAYHOME (Portugal)                OT2ØSTAYHOME (Belgium)
  DXØSTAYHOME (Philippine)              OT6STAYSAFE (Belgium)
  E7STAYHOME (Bosnia & Herzegovina)     R3STAYHOME (European Russia)
  GB4SAH [SAH=Stay-At-Home] (England)   TC1STAYHOME (Turkey)
  GB5NHS [NHS=National Health Service]  VC2STAYHOM (Canada)
    (England)                           VE9HOME (Canada)
  HZ1STAYHOME (Saudi Arabia)            VI2Ø2ØSTAYHOME (Australia)
  IX1HPN/STAYHOME (Italy)               XM2STAYHOM (Canada)
  KC1KUG/STAYH (United States)          YS1STAYHOM1 (Venezuela)
  OHØPYSYKOTONA (Finland; "Pysykotona”  YS1STAYHOM4 (Venezuela)
    means StayHome in Finnish)          YS1STAYHOM5 (Venezuela)
  OH1PYSYKOTONA (Finland)               YS1STAYHOM# (Venezuela)
  OH2PYSYKOTONA (Finland)               Z3ØSTAYHOME (North Macedonia)
  OH3PYSYKOTONA (Finland)               Z39STAYHOME (North Macedonia)
  OH4PYSYKOTONA (Finland)
QSL via operator's instructions. ADDED NOTE: The Finnish Amateur Radio League (SRAL) is providing a number of special awards during these Stay-At-Home "OH" operations (as well as other countries signing STAYHOME that qualified) which runs through July 8th. Complete details can be found on the SRAL Web page at:
  https://www.sral.fi/2020/04/07/finland-stay-home
-[OPDX # 1460 April 13, 2020]

73,
Craig, KØCF