S. Hanrahan wrote in message . ..
On 29 Jul 2004 04:00:50 GMT, PAMNO (N2EY) wrote:

In article UIYNc.188075$JR4.54268@attbi_s54, "King Zulu"
writes:

"N2EY" wrote in message
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N2EY" wrote in message
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Back in the gud ol' days ('58), the non-renewable Novice license was
good for only 12 months, starting from the application date.

I don't think that's the way it was.

That was the way it was, Jim. Why would I make it up?

I didn't say you made it up. I didn't say you lied. I simply wrote that I don't
think that's how it was back then.

Actually it was that way. My father had a KN7 call and the Novice
license even back in the early 1960's was good for only one year, then
it became null and void.

No argument there! The novice was one-year nonrenewable from its
inception in 1951 to 1967, when it became two-year nonrenewable. (And
"non-retakeable" - one to a customer.)

The dispute was whether the year started when the initial application
was made, or only when the license was actually issued. With the
processing delays of those times, the difference could be weeks or
even months!

All the Novices I knew in the '60s and later received their licenses
only a day or two after the effective date. But in King Zulu's case,
the license date was *months* before it arrived - close to the date of
the initial application.

He upgraded before the year ran out, and
they dropped the "N" from the prefix, and he's held that call since.

Yep. The letter V was also used, as in WV2ABC. Don't know why they
needed two special Novice prefixes...

73 de Jim, N2EY