TopBand: New Callsigns..Not to Fear, Pal

[Christie, Mike]

Hey Paul,

Yeah, the W4DX issued at the last minute "grabbed" a bunch of us GATE 2 types.

Turns out to be legit. Seems W4DX was the [maternal side] grandfather of the
gent that picked it up. He waited to the last minute. It seems his grandad
wished a DX club to receive the call sign. 
Turns out the DX club done doeed disbanded. Grandson gent very carefully
checked this out [respoectable of his grandad's past wishes] and once this
info was revealed...shoot!...he went for his grandad's call sign and he got
'er [just ahead of all us unwashed masses at the Gate 2, hi]. Dat be the way
I understand it. Any corrections out der?

73,

mike, k7rls/4
crawfordville, florida


At 05:21 PM 9/24/96 -0400, PChristensen@Continental.com wrote:
>All those listed for yesterday cannot possible be vanity call sign
>grants.  After digging through some of them, there appears to be a lot
>of renewals mixed in with the bunch.  Additionally, some of those listed
>are residual applications from gate 1 and 1A applicants.
>
>What scares me is this: 
>
>It was too easy for someone (under false pretenses) to apply under Gate
>1, and overnight their application on Thursday for a Friday delivery to
>the bank.  This application would precede those coming in on the
>weekend, and receive what would appear to be a legitimate grant date
>(After Sept. 23). The only way to find out for sure would be to match
>the stamped delivery date with the application.  
>
>Consider this: W4DX was issued last week.  Quite honestly, does anyone
>really think that he waited until "the last minute" to apply
>legitimately under Gate 1 or 1A?  This fella didn't even think to have
>waited under the condition I set forth above.  He would have fooled
>everyone.
>
>My application was delivered at 12:03AM on Saturday morning.  If anyone
>else gets my top one or two picks, I'm going to investigate.
>
>-Paul
>>----------
>>From: 	Craig Clark[SMTP:nx1g@top.monad.net]
>>Sent: 	Tuesday, September 24, 1996 3:03 PM
>>To: 	Scott.A.Long
>>Cc: 	topband@contesting.com
>>Subject: 	RE: TopBand: New Callsigns
>>
>>At 01:30 PM 9/24/96 -0400, you wrote:
>>>I just got off the phone with the FCC at 11:32 am EST. I asked the lady how 
>>>they were going to handle these and she said they all have to be keyed-in to
>>>the computer before they start the callsign processing. She said, 4-5 weeks 
>>>turnaround! I didn't ask her but it sounds like they will be dealing with 
>>>this in alphabetical order. Seems like an unfair system to me. We might as 
>>>well all FED-EXed our apps to them!
>>
>>Don't think so. They first was issued yesterday. Check out QRZ's Daily FCC
>>activity. The first new call was issued yesterday. I filed mine
>>electronically today. We shall see how long this takes. My guess is that FCC
>>is buying "caging" (de-cashing and data entry)from the Mellon bank and
>>Mellon employees (or someone they have sub-contracted) will be keying the
>>information into the 610V forms and then electronically batching them to the
>>FCC computer. That is the only way a call could have been issued yesterday.
>>
>>>
>>>I think this one is worth writing to my congressman about. Seems as if they 
>>>are making up the rules as they go. Sorry for the depressing news but thats 
>>>what they said.
>>
>>You don't know the half of it on this one. I'll explain later if I get my
>>problem resolved.
>>
>>Take a chill-pill. I waited 17 weeks for my Novice in 1967! HI HI!!
>>
>>Craig
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