Thanks Doug! Yes, I do also post on AR902 list, I am one and the same. My boss, Knox got lucky with his name and call sign. K6NOX is just perfect.....fate, or luck? :-) Thanks to everyone who posted - I hope I do get my license soon too - met a few HAMs and have a good friend in San Jose who just last weekend spent his Sunday on the hill with an outdoor antenna just purely for the sake of being a HAM. :-)
John Hymes La Rue Communications 10 S. Aurora Street Stockton, CA 95202 http://tinyurl.com/2dtngmn ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 9:16 AM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Fw: DON'T BUY IT *HIJACKED* Back on Subject --- In [email protected], "La Rue Communications" <laruec...@...> wrote: > > As one who is seeking to get my call sign - this post raises a question in my head. Are call signs distributed according to region? For example, W2/N2/K2 are in the Colorado region, etc? And thats for the sequential call signs, correct? From what I understand, if you want a custom call sign, its on a first come, first serve basis - right? *Letting the other thread die*....John Hymes I know of you and your business [all positive things of course]. I think you do also post on the AR902Mhz Yahoo list, yes? The FCC assigns a Ham callsign based on your geographic location and/or state/region. They refer to them as, "Call District". Example California will have a W6/K6/N6/A6 etc. prefix whereas New York, New Jersey would have the W2 prefix. The standard callsign selection process is not terribly complicated but the FCC in their madness, has a method. For custom callsigns like mine [my initials] it's called the "vanity" callsign program. Check out this ARRL website for some more indepth information on custom callsigns:http://www.arrl.org/vanity-call-signs 73 Doug W7FDF
