On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 19:57:10 GMT, Robert Casey wrote:

N2EY wrote:


Yep. The letter V was also used, as in WV2ABC. Don't know why they
needed two special Novice prefixes...


The novice license must have been quite popular in some call districts.
maybe in California?

The "WN" and "KN" were the Novice parallel for the "W" and "K" Tech
calls in the era when one could hold both. When the "K"/"KN" calls
ran out, they decided to go to the "WA" calls, and "WV" (V for noVice)
became the parallel.

--
73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

In article , "Phil Kane"
writes:

The "WN" and "KN" were the Novice parallel for the "W" and "K" Tech
calls in the era when one could hold both. When the "K"/"KN" calls
ran out, they decided to go to the "WA" calls, and "WV" (V for noVice)
became the parallel.

No Vice - I like it!

However, when I got my Novice in 1967, I was issued WN3IYC. Then when I
upgraded, I got WA3IYC. Never heard a "WV" on the air (but I did work WV)

I wonder if someone could get their old WV Novice call back under vanity? Would
be really unique!

73 de Jim, N2EY

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:47:42 GMT, "Phil Kane"
wrote:

The "WN" and "KN" were the Novice parallel for the "W" and "K" Tech
calls in the era when one could hold both. When the "K"/"KN" calls
ran out, they decided to go to the "WA" calls, and "WV" (V for noVice)
became the parallel.

I know quite a few WA7's who had those calls issued as novice calls.
The FCC started issuing WA7's in the very early 1970's when the KN7
and WN7 prefixes were used up. One of them a friend of mine had a KN7
call, moved to Sydney, Australia for 2 years, came back, and was
issued a WA7 call.

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 02:57:16 -0600, hotmail user wrote:

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:47:42 GMT, "Phil Kane"
wrote:

The "WN" and "KN" were the Novice parallel for the "W" and "K" Tech
calls in the era when one could hold both. When the "K"/"KN" calls
ran out, they decided to go to the "WA" calls, and "WV" (V for noVice)
became the parallel.

I know quite a few WA7's who had those calls issued as novice calls.
The FCC started issuing WA7's in the very early 1970's when the KN7
and WN7 prefixes were used up. One of them a friend of mine had a KN7
call, moved to Sydney, Australia for 2 years, came back, and was
issued a WA7 call.

Not all call areas got to use up the KN/WN calls before the
distinction between Novice and Tech calls was abandoned.

--
73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:40:43 GMT, "Phil Kane"
wrote:

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 02:57:16 -0600, hotmail user wrote:

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:47:42 GMT, "Phil Kane"
wrote:

The "WN" and "KN" were the Novice parallel for the "W" and "K" Tech
calls in the era when one could hold both. When the "K"/"KN" calls
ran out, they decided to go to the "WA" calls, and "WV" (V for noVice)
became the parallel.

I know quite a few WA7's who had those calls issued as novice calls.
The FCC started issuing WA7's in the very early 1970's when the KN7
and WN7 prefixes were used up. One of them a friend of mine had a KN7
call, moved to Sydney, Australia for 2 years, came back, and was
issued a WA7 call.

Not all call areas got to use up the KN/WN calls before the
distinction between Novice and Tech calls was abandoned.

I think I made that abundantly clear in my previous post.

Stacey/AA7YA