In article , Robert Casey
writes:

N2EY wrote:
In article , Robert Casey
writes:


Back in the olden days, two brothers living at the same house
got their ham licenses. But the FCC, seeing the same address,
made them share the same callsign, as they shared the same shack.


When was this, Robert?


Sometime in the 20's or 30's, IIRC.

Ah - that fits. In that era, mobile and portable operation by hams was not
allowed. A station license was for one location only! The rules changed in the
very late '20s and '30s to allow portable and finally mobile operation. (Until
1949, mobile operation was not allowed below 25 MHz, and for a time in the
1930s, portable operation required a special "Z" or "ZZ" license with four
letters after the number. W6AM got callsign "W6ZZAM" for portable use.)

73 de Jim, N2EY