If you had to choose between a sequentially issued A-prefix 2x2 call sign that contains your first and last initials and a non-initials vanity 1x2 call sign that had never been held in the amateur service, which call sign would you choose?
A sequentially issued A-prefix 2x2 call sign that contains your first and last initials
A non-initials vanity 1x2 call sign that had never been held in the amateur service
If you had to choose between a sequentially issued A-prefix 2x2 call sign that contains your first and last initials and a non-initials vanity 1x2 call sign that had never been held in the amateur service, which call sign would you choose?
Hmmm...I'll get back to you on that:Originally Posted by AB3MV
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
Actually, I would have preferred one of those obsolete Chicken Band calls. NOT! ;)
You mean like KBY1558? That brings back some very fond memories of the 1970s--when the CB Service was much more like the present day AR repeater culture. CB became a victim of its own social phenomenon popularity in the late 70s, and that is the end of that...
The option of choosing an unassigned 'A' series 2x2 as a vanity option with ones initials is missing from the poll. That would be the choice for me as that is what I did. From the very beginning of when it became apparent that the time, place, and interest coincided to fully jump into the hobby (after 40 years of near misses and wishful thinking) had arrived.
I never had any intention of keeping the 'K' series 2x3 to be sequentially assigned as a newly minted General Class. Prior to going in for testing on Elements 2 & 3, some research had been done at N4MC's site to plot out the future. The plan was to immediately apply for a 1x3 vanity, and change again a year later to an unassigned 2x2 call when I tested for Amateur Extra class. Both would contain my initials. The plan was also to take the Element 1 exam before it dropped off the menu--but hernia surgery intervened and set things off a full month and poof! that option was gone... :(
FCC issued me KI4UMG. The guy sat next to me ended up with KI4UMF. Tim never really got that some referred to him as "Ugly Mother Fucker", but anyway... N4PRT was in my hands less than a week after the original call appeared in ULS. Much more CW friendly too. That call had only been out once, and had been back in the pasture for over 8 years. It took more than a year before motivation set in to do Element 4, and AE1PT was still available--never before being assigned. So I got what I wanted, did not have to think about renting a dead ham's call, and had a fairly Morse friendly call with my initials. It will never change again, as I like it, and see no need to ever have a 1x2 or 2x1 call.
The people that I really don't understand are those that fight each other to get a 1x2/2x1 and then end up later changing to another. Makes no sense, but then there are a lot of things about this hobby that make no sense...
ON EDIT:
Actually, if A1OF were available, I might reconsider... :cool2:
And the full circle of things? My 'handle' to go with KBY1558 was Papa Tango... :twisted:
Last edited by AE1PT; 01-26-2013 at 06:44 PM.
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Heh,
I was trustee for a number of club calls in the late 90's and one of them was the Mustang Ranch ARC, KF7UCK.
I got hate mail over that one...
Really? Takes all kinds, I guess.
More importantly, though... how many people wanted to know how to join the club?
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I simply would have wanted a card! Awesome call.
I prefer the call I already have.
You didn't offer the choice of keeping the originally issued. The one I have is the one I started with in 1961. (Actually it was Kn7SGJ for a year back then) I don't contest, I'm not vain, and I don't need a call with my initials so I can remember it. I have plenty of other really important shit that I have trouble remembering, like yesterday.
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Heh, that's cool. I kept my second call for over 20 years. My present call isn't my initials, but it's close. It sounds cool in CW. I tossed my second call for a couple of different reasons and my 'KLI call I ditched because I had a bunch of old farts giving me shit about using a call that only, in their opinion, old farts should be able to use.
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