[RTTY] BARTG Sprint 2013

[Ken Alexander]

Geez Bill, where are you getting this from?  I was pretty careful to 
keep my discussion about moving from one call district to another. 
Nobody suggested 50 call districts or thousands based on counties, and 
any discussion of speed limits is irrelevant here.  You've taken this to 
a ridiculous conclusion that only damages your credibility.

My comparison to drivers licenses when moving from state to state was 
merely to point out that you had to get a new state-issued drivers 
license if you took up residency in a new state.  Likewise, although the 
FCC is a federal authority, it makes sense that when you move from one 
call district to another that you get a call sign that corresponds to 
the call district you now reside in.  This is the way it works with call 
signs everywhere else and its the way a lot of people would like to see 
it again according to the reaction I got from my original post on the 
subject.

Ultimately, nothing is likely to change.  As you say, one call will be 
issued that's good for anywhere in the U.S..  It's just a shame to see 
an orderly system (one that works so well everywhere else in the world) 
trashed in the name of bureaucratic laziness and personal vanity.

73,

Ken Alexander
VE3HLS


On 2013-01-07 9:31 PM, Bill Turner wrote:
> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 14:46:57 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
> <snip>
>> You report any moves to another call district, just like you do with your drivers license when you move to a new state, right?
> REPLY:
> Apples and oranges.
>
> In the USA, different states have different rules of the road. In wide open
> Montana speed limits may be quite different from a more congested eastern state.
> Having a driver's license and different rules for each state makes sense.
>
> Not so for the FCC. The rules are nationwide and do not vary from one part of
> the country to another.
>
> So let's take you point. I live in California and have a W6 call (W6WRT, my
> initials). Suppose I move to the 5th call area and I become W5WRT. Now what
> state am I in? Would you like the FCC to issue calls based on the state? There
> could be W01AAA through W50ZZZ  I suppose. California was the 31st state so I
> could be W31WRT.  Would that be better? There are some 3000+ counties in the
> USA. Why not have W2754XXX? Is that better? How about cities? Towns? Villages?
> Wide spots in the road?
>
> As it is now, the FCC issues one call that is valid anywhere in it's
> jurisdiction. Good enough I say.
>
> Bill, W6WRT
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