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.

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