He probably filed the forms for a 'vanity' call sign. -Brian / KF4ZWZ (licensed in Tennessee, living in SoCal...)
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:27 AM, La Rue Communications <[email protected]>wrote: > > > 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 <[email protected]> > *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 > > > >
