On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 06:59:38 -0700, Dave Hollander
wrote:

My name is Dave and my handle is aluminum or "aluminium" for the VE's
and G stations

Dave - I use dto work a station up in Chattanooga on 40m AM back
around 1967 or so, and he had an old K4XXX call BEFORE they had vanity
calls to fake others off that you are an O.T.

His handle was "Catfish" and he was a great guy. I never found out
what his real name was, but he was just a great old-time AM op from
way back. None of us had come from the CB ranks back then.
We didn't try to recruit CBers until the ham manufacturers
thought they should persuade ARRL to pursue it so they could sell
more radios. That's when the contentiousness increased I think!

YMMV