I think they should only issue vanity call signs to General class licensees
and above.
There are too many new Techs using up all the good vanity call signs
available, only to go off the air after a few months and effectively
taking the call sign out of the available pool for the next 12 years.

I think it would also be an incentive to upgrade.....Just my
opinion.http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ham-Radio-Unplugged/

wy0ohg143 wrote:
I think they should only issue vanity call signs to General class licensees
and above.
grow up whinner

"wy0ohg143" wrote in message
...
I think they should only issue vanity call signs to General class
licensees
and above.
There are too many new Techs using up all the good vanity call signs
available, only to go off the air after a few months and effectively
taking the call sign out of the available pool for the next 12 years.

I think it would also be an incentive to upgrade.....Just my
opinion.http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ham-Radio-Unplugged/


I'm seriously considering getting my old call back. No one would want the
thing (hey, I want a 1X2), but a WB2 would be from the 60s. You can't tell
from a call sign today how long someone may have been licensed.

Heck, I'm old as air, twice as polluted, and was first licensed in 1962!


73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA (former WN2CJV, WB2OSP, WA3RJX, N2JH)

wrote in message
oups.com...

I don't think they should issue them at all.

Rescind the present ones and reissue a sequential.


I would not have a problem with that either.

"Jim Hampton" wrote in message
...

I'm seriously considering getting my old call back. No one would want the
thing (hey, I want a 1X2), but a WB2 would be from the 60s. You can't
tell
from a call sign today how long someone may have been licensed.



Who gives a flying crap how long someone has been licensed?
Take that and 50 cents and you can't buy a cup of coffee.
GET A LIFE

"wy0ohg143" wrote in
:

I think they should only issue vanity call signs to General class
licensees and above.
There are too many new Techs using up all the good vanity call signs
available, only to go off the air after a few months and effectively
taking the call sign out of the available pool for the next 12 years.

I think it would also be an incentive to upgrade.....Just my
opinion.http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ham-Radio-Unplugged/



It's like picking a new CB handle for yourself these days, Ah good-buddy,

Ten-Four? Breaker Breaker breaker...

Got your ears on?

Slow Code wrote:



It's like picking a new CB handle for yourself these days, Ah good-buddy,

grow up

Ten-Four? Breaker Breaker breaker...

Got your ears on?

On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 23:13:18 GMT, Jim Hampton wrote:

I'm seriously considering getting my old call back. No one would want the
thing (hey, I want a 1X2), but a WB2 would be from the 60s. You can't tell
from a call sign today how long someone may have been licensed.

DO IT!!! I filed to get my original call back on the first day that
applications were being accepted ten years ago (gotta' renew this
spring). I traded a 1X2 for my old 1X3. The 1X2 was snapped up
almost immediately. I wanted it for a club station that I
"trustee", but another club grabbed it one day before our app hit
G'burg.

Heck, I'm old as air, twice as polluted, and was first licensed in 1962!

Got you beat by 10 years.....

--
73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane