Encoding amateur radio callsigns in ethernet addresses

With the following method an 8 character amateur radio callsign can be encoded in a 48 bit ethernet address. It also allows for a 4 bit secondary station id. The different characters are encoded using a base37 encoding.

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z null or whitespace character

0 - 7 8 - 15 16 - 23 24 - 31 32 - 39 40 - 47
48 bit ethernet address
callsign bit 41 - 40 4 bit SSID locally administered bit multicast bit callsign bit 39 - 32 callsign bit 31 - 24 callsign bit 23 - 16 callsign bit 15 - 8 callsign bit 7 - 0

The locally administered bit is always on. The multicast bit can be used when appropriate.

For example, the callsign PE1RXQ results in the following address: c2:31:a6:64:88:92