Well…I’ve had mine for 30 years, nearly 31. While I’ve toyed with the idea of changing it, either to K5ELV or some other fun thing (X5LID is tempting…X being any 1-letter prefix), I’ve never been able to bring myself to actually doing it, not even when I moved to 3-land. Now that I’m moving back to 5-land it seems even less imperative. And even less since all of these here new young whipper snappers are getting W 1X3’s and K1X3’s and no one knows ow long anyone’s really been around anymore. So I keep my original because, well, it’s original. And besides, it has a great cw rhythm, in spite of, or perhaps because of, the E right there after the 5.
Vy 73, de KB5ELV > On Jul 14, 2018, at 8:26 PM, K7CR <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Jul 13, 2018, at 4:58 PM, Ken G Kopp <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Trivia:. Usta be that all "K" calls on the BC band were east of the >> Mississippi River. >> >> WFAA and WBAP in Ft Worth share a common studio and transmitter and split >> hours of call use. >> > ********* > > There are a few leftovers from before the Commish nailed down the > Mississippi > W/K line - > > Examples are - > > KYW in Philly > WOAI in San Antonio > > Been in Broadcasting since 1961 and in my career I've work for a number of > Radio stations with 3-letter calls - KMO, KTW...Sadly the FCC determined > That once an owner changed them to 4-Letters there was no going back. > > On the Amateur Side - I've had K7CR for about 43 years ..Been very > Pleased with it, on Phone and CW. (Even tho it ends in a Dit) > > Clay > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
