[CW] OT: FCC Petition for Lifetime Amateur License

[Radio K0HB]

When I assume room temperature no one, absolutely no-one, will give a rip what arbitrary set of alpha-numeric characters the FCC had assigned to my radio station.  (Just to clarify, call signs are not assigned by the FCC to your person; the callsign is assigned to your radio station.)




I want to be remembered as "Dad", "Husband", "Grandpa", "Sailor", and "Good Friend", not by the call letters of an old collection of wireless electronic gadgets.



__73, de Hans, K0HB

"Just a Boy and His Radio"™

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Kate Hutton <katehutton at gmail.com> wrote:

> The main source of vanity calls is SKs.  They would certain run short on
> good ones (1x3s & 2x2s) after awhile.
> 73 Kate K6HTN
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 6:46 PM, Danny Douglas <n7dc at comcast.net> wrote:
>> The thing I see with this request is that we might not even know someone
>> died, or was in an institution, etc. and would never cancel the ticket.  We
>> could quickly have more than a couple million tickets out there, and less
>> than half of them activie.  Though it wouldnt sound so bad, it would jack
>> the data bases pretty badly.  Id almost bet we approach that percentage
>> now, with 10 year tickets.  It wold cost the ARRL a lot of money, sending
>> out postcards, trying to get all these people to sign up.  hehe
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From: *"D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea at arrl.net>
>> *To: *"CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>
>> *Sent: *Thursday, February 25, 2016 9:38:08 PM
>> *Subject: *Re: [CW] OT: FCC Petition for Lifetime Amateur License
>>
>> It's been that way since the very first licensees.  But they did issue
>> comparable callsign: if you were W1TC and moved to z Louisiana, you'd get
>> W5TC if it was available our K5TC, or another W5 two later callsign.
>>
>> 73
>>
>> DR
>> On Feb 25, 2016 5:17 PM, "Danny Douglas" <n7dc at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I would add a request that callsigns die with the holder.   Its my name
>>> in ham radio.  I hate to work someone, thinking I know him, to find out its
>>> the next person up.
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From: *"Ron Youvan" <ka4inm at gmail.com>
>>> *To: *"CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>
>>> *Sent: *Thursday, February 25, 2016 8:32:23 AM
>>> *Subject: *Re: [CW] OT: FCC Petition for Lifetime Amateur License
>>>
>>>   David J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
>>>
>>> > Off Topic:  ARLB008
>>>
>>> > FCC Seeks Comments on Petition to Grant Lifetime Amateur Radio Licenses
>>>
>>> > SB QST ARL ARLB008
>>> > ARRL Bulletin 8  ARLB008
>>>
>>> >  >From ARRL Headquarters
>>> > Newington CT February 24, 2016
>>>
>>> > ARLB008 FCC Seeks Comments on Petition to Grant Lifetime Amateur Radio
>>> > Licenses
>>> /* snip */
>>>
>>>    The first down side of this proposal is: when a HAM dies his call
>>> sign will not automatically drop back into pool after their renewal
>>> date.  (I think there is a grace period of a year or two now?)
>>> --
>>>    Ron  KA4INM - Youvan's corollary:
>>>                  Every action results in unwanted side effects.
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