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Radio amateur clubs registered with BIPT (in order of payment) can apply for a special call sign to mark an event under the following terms and restrictions:

• The event is associated with the club’s life (special anniversary…);
• The club participates in an event (e.g. open house in a school or a radio amateur club has a stand);
• The event has to do with radio (e.g. Marconi’s birthday);
• A club is not allowed to ask more than two special call signs per calendar year;
• The special call sign cannot be used during contests;
• For the anniversary of the club or association, the call sign can be granted for a maximum period of one year;
• The call signs can have all the prefixes (ON, OP, OQ, OR, OS, OT);
• They are made of a prefix, a figure, and a series of characters ending with a letter;
• Call signs using the ON prefix (or the special prefix assigned to all the radio amateurs - see below) can not have a single digit if they have a suffix of 1, 2 or 3 letters;
• The special call signs cannot be used in the club members’ homes.

Recognised associations (UBA, VRA, UFRC) can ask a special prefix on the occasion of a particular event and for all the radio amateurs. In that case any radio amateur who wishes to do so can replace the ON in his/her call sign by the special prefix. This authorisation does not apply to short call signs.

The tariffs for these special call signs are mentioned in the Annex 1 of the Royal Decree of 18 December 2009 on private radio communications and user rights for fixed networks and trunk networks. 

Whoever unexpectedly acquires a station, without being personally authorised to possess or use it, has, from the moment he/she comes into possession of the station, a maximum period of sixty days to apply for a holder’s and operator’s authorisation for that radio station, or only one possession authorisation.

For a 5th category station, the operator uses the call sign related to his/her operator’s certificate or the authorisation of the operated station.

The call sign is transmitted following a method which is adapted to the type of emission. If this is not possible, the call sign is transmitted vocally or in telegraphy. In telephony mode, the call sign is pronounced clearly and, if necessary, spelled using the international alphabet. In telegraphy mode, the call sign is communicated in Morse code at the transmission speed used during the contact.

The call sign is transmitted at least once at the beginning and the end of each emission. When the emission is made of several short messages, the series of emissions is considered as one emission. In the context of an emission or a series of emissions, the call sign is repeated at least every five minutes.