[Boatanchors] OT: Reverse Call sign look up?

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Yahbut, it only brings up the current holder.  If the call has gone rogue, 
it doesn't bring up the real person it originally belonged to.  A search on 
my elmer's call (first issued 1929) brings up someone who thinks a grid is a 
search pattern for people the current administration wants to disappear 
(yes, I know the current holder and what he does for a living).

So although your information is quite useful (I never realized that it 
would find the call of someone whose name I remembered but call I had 
forgotten), it wouldn't have helped the person whose post you replied to.  The system 
maintains no history.  But a search on my name turned up a ham named Robert 
in Downsville, LA (I grew up about 12 miles from Downsville).  :-)

In a message dated 5/18/2009 10:04:32 PM Central Daylight Time, 
rinkies at att.net writes: 
> Meant to comment on this earlier.....
> 
> A few of us came up with creative ideas involving FCC databases, QRZ name
> search, etc.  It's really much easier than that!
> 
> Just type the name into the call sign search area and hit enter, and 
> that's
> all there is to it!  It will pick up anything in the name and address
> fields.  For example, I saw an antenna on a street in a neighboring town,
> typed in the name of the street and the name of the town, and it 
> immediately
> returned the call!
> 

Robert Downs - Houston
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MVPA 9480