On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:15:43 -0800, Robert Tellefsen wrote: >Unfortunately, our FCC has gotten lazy, and now >allows a ham to keep his call when he moves.
Such calumny! The real reason was that the Government Accounting Office, the bean-counters of the Feds, came in and made an audit of FCC license-issuing operations and decided that too much "resources" (i.e. money) was being spent on issuing and re-issuing both amateur and commercial operator licenses and in an effort to "nickle-nurse" the agency's operations, decreed that such things as lifetime commercial operator licenses and no-call-sign-change amateur licenses were to be the default. I can't moan-and-groan about that because I got to ransom back my original "2-area" call sign first issued to me in 1952. >FCC just doesn't seem to care. If they need to find you they can. >Fortunately, the vast majority of calls are still >in their original districts, so WAS is still not a >big problem. If a ham really wants a "new" call representing the district in which s/he lives, the FCC can and will issue one in the "sequence" i.e. no choice of prefix or suffix. Alternatively, any US ham can add the "/#" representing the call sign district id s/he wants. Not required but not prohibited, either. What is prohibited is adding a "/" followed by a combination of letters or numbers representing the prefix of a foreign country's ham licenses if the ham is in US territory. -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
