[ARC5] Call Letters

[Geoff]

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ronnie Hull" <w5sum at comcast.net>
> To: <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
> Cc: <Arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 1:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Call Letters
>
>
>>I live my 1X3 call! It belonged to my Elmer Robert Ehrhardt. My original 
>>call was WN5AIA / WB5AIA which was fine for rag chew qso's but hell for 
>>dx'ing!
>>
>> Ronnie
>>
>    WB6KBL is the call I got when first licensed c.1964.  I let my license 
> lapse for nearly forty years. Decided I HAD to get back on the air.  I was 
> issued something else but wanted my original call back so got it as a 
> vanity call. Its clumsy for both phone and CW so I have been thinking of 
> getting another vanity call if I can find something suitable that is 
> available.  I am more a rag chewer so I suppose a short, snappy call 
> doesn't really matter.  As far as contests and DX go I rather think good 
> antennas make more difference than anything else.
>
>
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles
> WB6KBL
> dickburk at ix.netcom.com


I have good antennas and a hilltop location but the propagation gods do not 
always cooperate so the skill of dropping a short call in at the right 
moment often does the job.

Id fall asleep if I had to send your call on CW! On SSB I can say Kilo Mike 
One Henry a hell of a lot faster than Willly Billy Six Kilo Bravo Lima (-; 
Sometimes just One Henry is all it takes in a pileup and Im well known as 
just One Henry for DXpedition operators and in regular roundtable 
ragchews(-;

I wasnt married to my original one and two land calls so the change was 
painless 30 years ago.

Carl