This Has gone on WAYYYYY to long. This thread is now OVER!!!
Let the bannings begin!!! I have shut this list DOWN in the past and will again. Scott Zimmerman - List Co-Owner Scott Zimmerman Amateur Radio Call N3XCC 474 Barnett Road Boswell, PA 15531 Brian Raker wrote: > > > 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] <mailto:[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 <mailto:[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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 > > > > > > >
