A glass-ceramic Bi1.7V0.3Sr2Ca 2Cu30x superconductor was prepared by the melt-quenching method. The compound was characterized by scanning electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, differential thermal analysis, current-voltage characteristics, transport resistance measurements, and Hall effect measurements. Two main phases (BSCCO 2212 and 2223) were observed in the x-ray data and the values of the lattice parameters quite agree with the known values for 2212 and 2223 phases. The glass transition temperature was found to be 426 °C while the activation energy for crystallization of glass has been found to be Ea = 370.5 kJ / mol. This result indicates that the substitution of vanadium increased the activation energy for the BSCCO system. An offset Tc of 80 K was measured and the onset Tc was 100 K. The Hall resistivity PH was found to be almost field-independent at the normal state. A negative Hall coefficient was observed and no sign reversal of ρH or RH could be noticed. The mobility and carrier density at different temperatures in the range 140-300 K under different applied magnetic fields up to 1.4 T were also measured and the results are discussed. © 2004 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.