[AMRadio] Online callbooks

[CL in NC]

Nick sent a link:  https://archive.org/details/callbook    and I was able to locate the call sign of my long ago SK friend. It is interesting that if you know any info, it will locate all. I vaguley remembered him as a W or WA4 with L's or M's in the call and found him that way.   I did put in the name 'Dave' and all the Daves came up in the 4th call district.  I did not find him initially, apparentlly missed the Dave it gave out, and then just looked at all calls with an L or M as the first suffix letter.  After I found him that way, I discovered you have to put in the wording exactly as it is in the book, and the book had a space between the Mc and the first letter of the rest, a C.  It did not locate McC but did MC C and found him.  If you know the town of somebody you are looking for, just put that in and it will list every ham in that town, but it will skip town abbreviations, if you put in Atlanta, it finds them all but no ATL's, you have to go check them all out though, one by one.  Note that the books are not listed sequentially, a 1959 book might be the next one from 1970.

Here was an interesting find in the 1959 book:  W4LEV US Marine Corp Parachute Tower, Free SPT-5-A, Camp LeJeune, NC

A call sign with the parachute tower location, but no other info.  Since this was 1959, guessing it predates repeaters unless they were really ahead of their time, maybe somebody knows about this call.  Currently, well at least in the 80's is was still used by the USMC but the address was in Jacksonville, Fla.

Thanks Nick for the link.

Charlie, W4MEC in NC