[Hallicrafters] local ham contacts

[Jim Pruitt]

Terry and the group.

I love the University of Arkansas callbook lookup at:
http://callsign.ualr.edu/callsign.shtml
or from their main info page at:
http://callsign.ualr.edu/index.shtml

   It allows searching by name, address, town, state, zip, etc.  A bit 
hard to get used to a few
rules as it comes up last name then first and to search for say a first 
name of  "Jim" it would be
,Jim (as in comma Jim).  Searching Chicago, IL returned 2580 records 
with 1389 active.
I have been told that QRZ.com also allows searching by more than just 
callsign.

This was what UALR returned when searching zip code 60618:

Result from callsign lookup

Active: 59
Inactive: 52
Total: 111

Also when searching for a person you have to know how they are entered 
in the FCC database because
a John Doe Jr might be Doe, John Jr (note Jr is part of first name) so 
searching Doe, John will
not show you John Doe Jr (figure that one out).

It is a great lookup utility though.  UALR does a great job and it is 
tied to the FCC database
so it is current to within a couple days just like the FCC database.

Hope that helps.

Good luck.

I sent the above message to the reflector too.  My original message 
contained the list of 111 results shown from the UALR output.
I got a message back saying that my message exceeded the 40K message 
size limit by 8k so it has not been approved yet but
the above will give you an idea of what to expect for the output.  I 
find the UALR callbook lookup to be a terrific site.  I have
used it for years and often take the output and import the data output 
into an Excel spreadsheet to keep a list of local hams.

I hope others find the site as useful as I do.

Jim Pruitt
WA7DUY

On 10/1/2017 2:20 PM, Jammer via Hallicrafters wrote:
 > what's the best way to find local hams?
 > I need to clean house...soon.
 > I'm in 60618.
 > reply off-list, thanks
 >
 > 73 de KC9KEL Terry Bakowski