-=> Quoting Kurt Weiske to Nancy Backus on 05-09-19  10:02 <=-
 -=> NANCY BACKUS wrote to DARYL STOUT <=-
 
 DS>> The FCC normally issues callsigns in a sequential format...such as
 DS>> N5VLX, N5VLY, N5VLZ (which was my first callsign), N5VMA, N5VMB,
 DS>> N5VMC, etc. The 1x3 calls (1 letter, a number (the callsign district)
 DS>> and 3 letters) have all been used
 NB>> I'd guess that as operators either change their signs (by choice or
 NB>> move) or die off, those original signs would become available to
 NB>> others...

 KW> I always thought the shorter the call sign, the more senior the
 KW> operator. Phil Karn wrote a great TCP/IP stack for DOS back in the day
 KW> that he called KA9Q - that was apparently his callsign.

I'm not at all up to date with that sort of thing, never having been a
radio ham operator, or even done CB.... so it's all been just from
following conversations either in person or here on echoes... ;)

ttyl      neb

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