[ARC5] Call Letters

[D. Platt]

I, too, heard the siren song of vanity callsigns.  I found that a "W3" 
with my initials was available.  I went so far as to fill out the 
paperwork but got cold feet at the 11th hour.  After so many years with 
the same callsign, having it ingrained in my mind in CW, it just didn't 
seem the thing to do. Yes, I have to send a lot of dits, but I've 
survived, somehow. So, we are still who we started out as....

Regards   Jeep - K3HVG

On 7/12/2013 5:40 PM, Christopher Bowne wrote:
> AJ1G is not that great a CW call either, too many single dots followed by a lot of dashes in the first three characters, but I've had it over 30 years now.  I previously had AJ2O after a 5 year hiatus between my original general WB2ZPS lapsed in 1973 while I was in college, and 1978 when I went from nothiing to extra in a very long day in Albany (I was living/working in Saratoga Springs, NY at the time).  Got AJ1G when I moved back to CT in early 1980.  AJ2O is now assigned to some big contester, I actually worked him on 40 CW  once a few years ago.
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