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 The GV prefix was used for special event calls, not personal calls (unlike the GE & GQ prefix). The "V" possibly signified Victory.
-During December 2001 the three character callsign "2MT" was used by the Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society special event station set up at the old Marconi factory in New Street, Chelmsford, Essex, to commemorate Marconi's first trans-Atlantic wireless transmission. The station used all Marconi Equipment.
+During December 2001 the three character callsign "2MT" was used by the Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society special event station set up at the Marconi factory in New Street, Chelmsford, Essex, to commemorate Marconi's first trans-Atlantic wireless transmission. The station used all Marconi Equipment.  This is believed to be the only example of a Special Event Callsign with a "2" prefix. Unlike Intermediate "2" calls it was permitted full legal power and didn't require the use of an RSL.
+MT had been used in 1922 for the UK's first regular entertainment broadcasts which were made from Writtle.
 During the whole month of June 2002, all UK licensees were allowed to use the prefix "GQ", "MQ" or "2Q", as appropriate, instead of the normal country prefix, to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.