I doubt that I will have to wait two months. The FCC only needs to verify that I am the former holder of the call, and that operation takes less than a minute. The call sign is available for reassignment on 3/9.Originally Posted by X-Rated
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
I doubt that I will have to wait two months. The FCC only needs to verify that I am the former holder of the call, and that operation takes less than a minute. The call sign is available for reassignment on 3/9.
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...
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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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My first two call signs were WN8YUD, then WB8YUD. I allowed my license to expire. When the second vanity gate opened for me I applied for full vanity. i wanted my initials. I received my 3rd choice in the vanity call lottery. I do not think it had been issued before. I am the kind not to lose any sleep over it if it was reissued. The old coots were no better than the young folks going into the hobby today. They were just born much earlier. They met the requirements of the day. They just did not have access to all of the free porn that the internet offers today. Sucks being them.
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At the time I applied for the vanity call, I had 14 other picks that were available at the time. N9XR was the first pick.
1. N9XR 6. N9ZR 11. N9GQ
2. N9KU 7. N9IH 12. K9UH
3. K9YI 8. N9SJ 13. K9VS
4. K9UI 9. K9SZ 14. K9VO
5. N9ZL 10. N9JY 15. N9IH
Pick #10 was my first initial and the last letter of my first name. But at the time, I just threw out a bunch of callsigns mostly certain I would get N9XR. This was in Dec 2000.
EDIT: Well maybe I liked N9IH better. Who knows since I put it down twice.
Last edited by X-Rated; 01-29-2013 at 01:08 PM.
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...
When I was at the previous company, a guy there got the call KC9HMF. We called him Huge for short.
Yeah. You can still look up KF7UCK on the ULS. Pretty funny. You had it for 6 and a half months. LOL
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.
Or simply going that ever elusive Alaska callsign, KL1T.
I was browsing vanityhq and I saw that n2rj was available. So I took it. Pure luck.
Good thing I did, with the flood of no code Extras, 1x2s are now in short supply.
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