[Elecraft] Call Letters

[Buddy Brannan]

Well…I’ve had mine for 30 years, nearly 31. While I’ve toyed with the idea of changing it, either to K5ELV or some other fun thing (X5LID is tempting…X being any 1-letter prefix), I’ve never been able to bring myself to actually doing it, not even when I moved to 3-land. Now that I’m moving back to 5-land it seems even less imperative. And even less since all of these here new young whipper snappers are getting W 1X3’s and K1X3’s and no one knows ow long anyone’s really been around anymore. So I keep my original because, well, it’s original. And besides, it has a great cw rhythm, in spite of, or perhaps because of, the E right there after the 5. 

Vy 73, de KB5ELV

> On Jul 14, 2018, at 8:26 PM, K7CR <k7cr at blarg.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jul 13, 2018, at 4:58 PM, Ken G Kopp <kengkopp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Trivia:. Usta be that all "K" calls on the BC band were east of the
>> Mississippi River.
>> 
>> WFAA and WBAP in Ft Worth share a common studio and transmitter and split
>> hours of call use.
>> 
> *********
> 
> There are a few leftovers from before the Commish nailed down the
> Mississippi 
> W/K line - 
> 
> Examples are  - 
> 
> KYW in Philly
> WOAI in San Antonio
> 
> Been in Broadcasting since 1961 and in my career I've work for a number of 
> Radio stations with 3-letter calls - KMO, KTW...Sadly the FCC determined 
> That once an owner changed them to 4-Letters there was no going back.
> 
> On the Amateur Side - I've had K7CR for about 43 years ..Been very 
> Pleased with it, on Phone and CW.  (Even tho it ends in a Dit) 
> 
> Clay 
> 
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