"N2EY" wrote in message
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In article , "Dee D. Flint"
writes:


Even the 1x3s, of which there are 52,728 possible combinations per
district,
are no longer available for sequential issue.

The "no longer available for sequential issue" thing is, I think, due
solely to
an FCC decision. IIRC, their computers are not set up to do it. Yet.

Besides, it generates vanity revenue.


No, it was not due to an FCC decision. They used them up.

Figuratively speaking, I was there, as they say, at the point in time when
they ran out. Sequentially available 1x3s ran out in most districts in '92,
'93, or '94 (some districts were slower than others and some may have gone
on slightly longer). My call is my original one issued in 1992 and as you
can see from the fact that it is N8UZE that they were already close to the
end of the 1x3s in district 8 by then. My daughter's call sign, issued in
1993, is N8ZNW. The pattern of issue was first to use W calls, then K
calls, and finally N calls. Slightly off topic, 2x3 calls being issued at
this time are still in the K sequence.

For a while, I followed the call sign usage just out of curiosity to see
when they would run out.

The biggest reason that I did not change my call sign upon getting my Extra
was that district 8 was out of 1x2 call signs by the time I passed my Extra
test in late 1992 (upgraded license was issued in early 1993). I had no
interest in Extra class call signs in the 2x1 or 2x2 format.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE