Sofa Slug wrote:

OK... forgive me if this is the wrong place for this, and/or it's been asked before...

I used to have a novice class license back in the early seventies that I let run out. I'm interested in becoming a ham again, and I wondered if I could still get my old callsign back.



Via the vanity callsign program, yes. This assumes nobody else holds
it, which
seems unlikely in your case. But you need to get a ham license first.
The FCC
will assign you some random callsign first. Then you can trade that in
for the
vanity callsign. It does cost something like $20 for every ten years
thereafter
(the FCC marks your license as vanity, so they know to charge money
again).