Brer Ed Vance wrote to Brer Roy Witt about Re: Resurrected:

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 EV>> Back then to pass the CW Exam IIRC 65 characters straight had to
 EV>> be written on the paper.

 RW>> 6as5d4d54as65das5d4fad65d4fa5s44f34sd534asf4sdf44s5df454f5s3sa4f

 RW>> But, what did it say?

 EV> IIRC, it was Words not garbage.

I know, but if you write it down, its going to look like the line above,
unless you can copy words and not characters. You know as well as I that
when you jump to warp speed, things go by faster than you can write them
down. Well, maybe not at 13wpm, but you know what I mean.

 RW>> I really never aspired to have a EXTRA class license, since
 RW>> there's no advantage to having one if you're not at all
 RW>> interested in using CW ... The only advantage I've found is
 RW>> that you could get a 1x2 or 2x1 call sign, but then after
 RW>> running out of those, they began to issue 2x2 calls, which I
 RW>> already had with my Advanced call - KB6PI...

 EV> I checked for my two old call signs on the FCC pages and the search
 EV> comes up empty. I guess the FCC hasn't issued either one of them
 EV> since I became W9ODR.

Try the callsign database at qrz.com instead. When I enter one of my old
callsigns there, it takes me to my present callsign with the old callsign
in (callsign) brackets.

PS - I just ran your KN4ZIQ callsign thru there and got no results.
Your previous callsign, WA9WSB does. My first callsign, WN6ABE issued in
1970. refers back to my K5RXT call.

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 EV> I knew a Radarman in the Navy frm South Dakota who told me of two
 EV> Hams who both lived one mountain top from the other and tried to blow
 EV> up each others RX by pointing their beam towards them while running
 EV> at Illegal Power levels to out do the other guy. -snip-

That was a trick that feuding CBers used to use on each other, but with
the xmtr sitting outside of the other CBers house. That doesn't work, btw.

It's better to pin your enemies' antenna coax...

 EV>> Before the FCC allowed Hams to keep their Call Sign no matter where
 EV>> they lived, I kept my K4 call from Kentucky and because I had moved
 EV>> to Indiana I got a Secondary License with a WA9 call.

 RW>> Those were no longer available when I got licensed. I often
 RW>> wondered why anyone would need two calls.

 EV> Back in my early Ham days when you lived in 2 Land and had a Summer
 EV> Home in 4 Land and you didn't want to use /4 every time you
 EV> identified, a Secondary Station License was a way to do that. There
 EV> may be other reasons than what I did and someone living part of
 EV> -----snip----

A friend of mine had two calls, one he used for his mobile/home stations
and one he used on his mountain top repeaters.

 EV>> In the 1970's or 1980's when I learned that I could exchange my WA9
 EV>> license for a One by Three license without paying anything, I asked
 EV>> the FCC for a 1X3 Call Sign figuring I'd get a K9 call and they gave
 EV>> me the W9 call I have now.

 RW>> Beginning in the 90s sometime, they began to issue 'vanity'
 RW>> calls of your choice. This is how I got licensed as K6RXT and a
 RW>> few years after I moved to Texas, K5RXT was available, so I
 RW>> applied for that one and got it. The former licensee lived in
 RW>> Louisiana and went silent key.

 EV> I'm a cheap LID, if I couldn't have swapped the Call for free I
 EV> wouldn't of done it.

Waddaya gonna do when it comes time to renew your present call?

 EV> W9ODR was owned by someone in Illinois before it was issued to me.
 EV> I was the Original Owner of my other two Call Signs.

I guess none of my old call signs are wanted by anyone. They're still
available.


         R\%/itt - K5RXT

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