Jim Reid wrote:
>
> At 08:23 PM 1/21/97 , was written:
>
> >Here's an interesting call sign issued during the Vanity Call Program.
> >
> > AL0HA {ALzeroHA)
> >
> >Of couse that's an Alaskan call. But - issued to the
> >"Coconut Island DX Association, ALOHA (KH6B)
>
> So how mnany people in Alaska want the call??
>
> If the guys on the Big Island of Hawaii want to have some
> fun with a Hawaiian word as a call, what is the harm?
>
> Folks all over the rest of the USA are getting calls outside
> their "districts". Only the ARRL thinks Hawaii and Alaska
> are still other countries! We who live here, at least most
> of us, think of ourselves as US citizens with all the rights and
> privledges of same.
>
> It IS a VANITY program, after all. Vanity = pride?
> or is it vanity = futility??
>
> How about the people who were first in line at the Mellon bank
> that night: they got KH7A and KH7DX; and they live in Japan!
> Both of those calls were on my list! But the FCC assingned
> calls "at random", we were told; thus, since they were first
> they got them at random.
>
> And neither have worked VK0IR (or probalby any other DX).
> (But they have a condo on Maui, as do many Japaneese visitors
> to Hawaii). Of course KH7DX upgraded to Advanced about
> 10 days before 9/23; and to Extra almost simultaniously with
> the application for KH7DX (with-in two days of the 610V
> application).. Wonder how THAT was possible?
>
> Just some thoughts about all the Hawaiian KH6 calls that went
> to citizens of Japan over the years. Of course, it is good to see
> them study for and pass the US tests for Extra class operating
> skill (20 wpm CW) and the technical stuff.
>
> There is a lot of stuff going on in the world impacting our hobby;
> again, just more thoughts as I read the acrimony about the fun-
> and JOY, of the guys on the Big Island who were able to
> get the AL0HA call for their club on the Island of Hawaii.
>
> As I say, just some random thoughts. Nothing serious.
>
> 73, Jim, KH7M
Kinda like a few contests ago when Kh7 was pretty known as
Kure Island, some jerk used a /kh7 call. Another example
of the same decline
K0LUZ
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