[BC] Reflecting on a stack of QST and CQ magazines...

[Rob Atkinson]

I was 19 when i got my two letter call.  it was 1977.  i got some funny 
looks at hamfests.

I'm sure the old-timers didn't like it and I couldn't blame them.  I didn't 
like it either, but we were all told get one now or never because once they 
were all issued they would never be issued again (that's what we were led to 
believe).  so i put in for mine only because of that.  I would have 
preferred to have waited 25 years.

rob atkinson
k5uj

From: Tom Bosscher <tom at bosscher.org>
Reply-To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] Reflecting on a stack of QST and CQ magazines...
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 11:07:23 -0500

WFIFeng at aol.com wrote:
  >>tom bosscher  K8TB
>
>Tom? New Call?

	Ya, somebody had to die for that to happen. Really!

25 odd years ago when the vanity calls first became available, K8TB was the 
only call I wanted. I futzed a wee bit too long. So finally I decide to go 
for the Extra, but I make a last minute check with the FCC, and the call was 
in use.

	For whatever reason, last fall, I looked the call back up and put the place 
holders name into Google. Up came his obituary! You have to wait two years 
and one day to delete a call with the FCC, and he had died two years and two 
weeks ago! So I ordered his death certificate off the Genesee county web 
site, faxed that and a cover letter into the FCC, 48 hours later they 
deleted his call. By then my application was in. Eleven days later I got it.

	Licensed with WN8URE/WA8URE since 1966. Still fakes out by ham radio 
buddies.

		Kilo 8 Tango Brave




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