In article , Mike Coslo
writes:

Dee D. Flint wrote:
"Clint" rattlehead at computron dot net wrote in message
...

Wrong again.

BZZZZZT, wrong on your part.

There was a whole slew of N-class licenses, I knew several of them...
N5VSQ, N5XDT, etc.

Clint
KB5ZHT


Those calls were not issued on the basis of whether they had or had not
passed a code test. Those call signs were issued to people who had passed
General and Technician with code as well as no-code Techs. There is NO way
to tell from a call sign whether they passed code as the call signs were
issued on the basis of license class only.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE
(an original N call issued when I passed my Tech with code in 1992. I have
never held a codeless license).

How d'ya think he's going to "BZZZZTT" out of this one Dee?

Clint is simply mistaken.

Maybe time for N2EY to
weigh in one this one

See above. Dee's information is correct.

FCC has *never* differentiated between code-tested and non-code-tested
Technician callsigns.

Also, with one exception, there has never been any requirement for a ham to
change callsigns when upgrading license class. That one exception, now long
gone, was the requirement to give up the Novice "N" or "V".

...............oh..........wait a second........
Jim must be a no-coder with that call sign. Jim, has Clint outed you? 8^)

Nothing to be "outed" from!

I have held this callsign since 1977, when it was sequentially issued. Before
that I held WA3IYC, and before that, WN3IYC.

--

And while we're on the subject of callsigns...

I recall reading here recently that someone with a 2x3 WA8 call claimed to have
held that same call since 1956. That's not correct, because FCC did not issue
WA8 prefix calls that far back.

Perhaps I read that post wrong.

73 de Jim, N2EY