[Hallicrafters] Bill Halligan And The FCC

[Roger K8RI]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee Bahr" <pulsarxp at earthlink.net>
To: "Duane B. Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>; "Vern Weiss" 
<telegrapher at hotmail.com>; <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Bill Halligan And The FCC


>I can tell you how I got my two letter call.  I was licensed in 1953 as
> WN9DRC then W9DRC.  Sometime later I got my EXTRA Class license.  The 
> rules
> back then were, once you had 25 years under your belt as a ham and if you

The 25 years was not required in the 70s.
I received mine with only a tad over 15 to 16 years (licensed in 61 and took 
the Extra in the mid to late 70s)
I was talking with W8QOI today and he received his Extra one week after I 
did.  They were not longer giving out the calls by request, so If any one 
knows the cut off date which was on the Thursday...I took the test on 
Tuesday.  I remember my daughter wasn't in Highschool yet to it almost had 
to be prior to 77.

The reason I ask is I don't have any records back from those days and I'd 
really like to figure out when I was first licensed (April of May of 61), 
when I made General, Advanced, and Extra.

Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL Life Member)
N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
www.rogerhalstead.com

> had an Extra class license, you could apply for a two letter call (K or W
> 1x2).  You could also give them a list of calls of which they could select 
> a
> call for you.  The call given was not a vanity call as issued today.  This
> was done only for Extra Class hams and was issued as an "earned" call.  So
> in about 1979 I sent in a list of calls I would accept and put down my
> present call as one of them.  (I lived in the tenth call area at that 
> time).
> I got,  as requested, w0vt for "vacuum tube".  (You could only get a call
> with a number in it for your residence call area).  This is how I remember
> it.
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