"Jim Hampton" wrote in message
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Certainly, there are still a large number of 1X3s still around with a
non-vanity issued call. However, I suspect that in the 2nd district,
these
would have run out sometime around 1959 or 1960. This sets a lower limit
on
age of around 50. This would be for a child who obtained his or her
ticket
just before they started with the WA prefixes here. Someone obtaining
their
ticket then as a teenager should be around 60. You don't have to go too
far
back through the K2XXX to approach W2XXX and now you're likely looking at
someone 80 years old or more. There were fewer amateurs then and
callsigns
weren't issued at the machine-gun rate they were some decades later.


You keep ignoring the 1x3s beginning with N. These started being issued in
the 1970s and/or 1980s and finished being issued in the 1990s (for all call
districts). So the 1x3s beginning with K would not have run out until
sometime in that 1970-1980 timeframe.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE