[TenTec] callsigns - WAS: Extra Class Licensing

[Paul Valko - W8KC]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Reid" <jimr.reid at verizon.net>

>  Jim,  now W6KPI,  gave up the KH7M call a couple weeks ago,
> went back to my 1950 call rather in protest to what is going
> on now.  I no longer felt any pride whatsoever in holding a 2x1 call.
> So I returned to what is certainly recognized as a very old call,  hi.

Jim,

That's funny, I always thought of guys with those 2x1 "metric" callsigns as 
being newbies :-)  But now, a LOT of the new technicians are snapping up 1x3 
"W" calls because they do not want to thought of as "newbies."

Sheeze, now whenever I hear a 1x3 on FM or SSB <grin> I almost always assume 
it's a new guy.  NOTHING wrong with that, I think everyone oughta get a 
vanity call.

It seemed pretty clear to me that the 1x2 calls would be snapped up fast 
when that Gate 2 vanity thing happened about 8 years ago.  That's why, after 
21 years, I gave up my 2x3 call.

Sure glad I did too.  Mine's great on QRP CW!

73! =paul= W8KC
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