"garigue" wrote in
news:MXaqd.474097$D%.46822@attbi_s51:


I don't think much of that either. There's a possibility of me
moving to Michigan. I wouldn't want to give up N3KIP for some KI8@&
call. I prefer a 1x3 to a 2x2, and I don't want to pay for a vanity
call.

Well, there you have it. I consider myself lucky to have gotten a
1x2; 2x1s sound backwards to me. As in "where's the rest of it?"


I couldn't agree more


I couldn't agree less ......any call that starts with a N is bogus in
my book ....those LETTERS belong on the tail of
a 1905 Wright Flyer not flying through the sacred ether. I got my call
after a few months of having my extra and it was granted in sequence
....... I was going to keep my WA3PPS but it just got too cumbersome.

In all seriousness I could care less about who has what or whatever
...I just like the variety out there and am actually entertained by
some of the really cumbersome CW calls out there. I rarely get on
phone but I do get K13R from time to time from an old-timer .....good
for a chuckle. I tell them the 13th call district is SW Pa. Now if I
could only get up a decent antenna .....another story for another time.

Take care guys .... God Bless ...... Tom Popovic KI3R Belle Vernon
Pa.




The funny thing is that calls with digits after the prefix are not allowed
on planes by ITU rules. In fact the amateur service is pretty much the only
service where FCC calls actually comply with ITU rules, almost all the rest
are in violation.

The correct ITU format for a plane would be like N-ABC for example, where
the dash _is_ a dash, not a placeholder for something else. That's the sort
of call you'll see on planes of all other nations, if you should chance to
hang around an international airport.