[Qcwa] Request for old callsign search HELP!

[Gary Harrison]

At 09:27 PM 5/12/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Folks!
>
>Would anyone out there be able to help me find out the callsign of an 
>amateur (SK in 1973) via the old callbook method?
>
>I  am attempting to assist the granddaughter of this SK -- she was 
>licensed in 2002, and try as she might, no one in her family has been able 
>to provide documentation of her grandfather's callsign.  She wishes very, 
>very much to request her grandfather's call as her own (if it is still 
>unissued).
>
>The SK's name was Lester Goodale from New Carlisle, Indiana (or it might 
>have been listed as Hudson Lake, Indiana -- not sure.  He would have been 
>licensed prior to 1973, so I'm unsure where we could begin.  The call was 
>most likely a K9xxx or a WA9xxx, again not really sure.
>
>Any and all help would be MOST APPRECIATED! Thanks and very 73!
>
>...Jim, K9FI
>email: (fonte at csinet.net)

Hi Jim,

         You may be able to find a 1973 or older Callbook at a hamfest that 
would allow this kind of search.  This is a VERY difficult to do search via 
Callbooks.  If you have ever seen a 1973 Callbook you can imagine looking 
at several columns of very small print on many pages. Maybe someone on this 
reflector can remember Lester and get you at least an idea of a 
callsign.  Possibly someone on the QCWA 20 meter net on Sundays will 
remember him.  Anyone is welcome to check into the net on 14.347 MHz SSB at 
2000Z.

         I hope someone can help you with this nice project.  Good luck!




73,
Gary Harrison, K0BC
QCWA Board member (past President)
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