Brer Ed Vance wrote to Brer Roy Witt about Re: Resurrected:   
      
    ----snip----   
      
    EV>> Back then to pass the CW Exam IIRC 65 characters straight had to   
    EV>> be written on the paper.   
      
    RW>> 6as5d4d54as65das5d4fad65d4fa5s44f34sd534asf4sdf44s5df454f5s3sa4f   
      
    RW>> But, what did it say?   
      
    EV> IIRC, it was Words not garbage.   
      
   I know, but if you write it down, its going to look like the line above,   
   unless you can copy words and not characters. You know as well as I that   
   when you jump to warp speed, things go by faster than you can write them   
   down. Well, maybe not at 13wpm, but you know what I mean.   
      
    RW>> I really never aspired to have a EXTRA class license, since   
    RW>> there's no advantage to having one if you're not at all   
    RW>> interested in using CW ... The only advantage I've found is   
    RW>> that you could get a 1x2 or 2x1 call sign, but then after   
    RW>> running out of those, they began to issue 2x2 calls, which I   
    RW>> already had with my Advanced call - KB6PI...   
      
    EV> I checked for my two old call signs on the FCC pages and the search   
    EV> comes up empty. I guess the FCC hasn't issued either one of them   
    EV> since I became W9ODR.   
      
   Try the callsign database at qrz.com instead. When I enter one of my old   
   callsigns there, it takes me to my present callsign with the old callsign   
   in (callsign) brackets.   
      
   PS - I just ran your KN4ZIQ callsign thru there and got no results.   
   Your previous callsign, WA9WSB does. My first callsign, WN6ABE issued in   
   1970. refers back to my K5RXT call.   
      
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    EV> I knew a Radarman in the Navy frm South Dakota who told me of two   
    EV> Hams who both lived one mountain top from the other and tried to blow   
    EV> up each others RX by pointing their beam towards them while running   
    EV> at Illegal Power levels to out do the other guy. -snip-   
      
   That was a trick that feuding CBers used to use on each other, but with   
   the xmtr sitting outside of the other CBers house. That doesn't work, btw.   
      
   It's better to pin your enemies' antenna coax...   
      
    EV>> Before the FCC allowed Hams to keep their Call Sign no matter where   
    EV>> they lived, I kept my K4 call from Kentucky and because I had moved   
    EV>> to Indiana I got a Secondary License with a WA9 call.   
      
    RW>> Those were no longer available when I got licensed. I often   
    RW>> wondered why anyone would need two calls.   
      
    EV> Back in my early Ham days when you lived in 2 Land and had a Summer   
    EV> Home in 4 Land and you didn't want to use /4 every time you   
    EV> identified, a Secondary Station License was a way to do that. There   
    EV> may be other reasons than what I did and someone living part of   
    EV> -----snip----   
      
   A friend of mine had two calls, one he used for his mobile/home stations   
   and one he used on his mountain top repeaters.   
      
    EV>> In the 1970's or 1980's when I learned that I could exchange my WA9   
    EV>> license for a One by Three license without paying anything, I asked   
    EV>> the FCC for a 1X3 Call Sign figuring I'd get a K9 call and they gave   
    EV>> me the W9 call I have now.   
      
    RW>> Beginning in the 90s sometime, they began to issue 'vanity'   
    RW>> calls of your choice. This is how I got licensed as K6RXT and a   
    RW>> few years after I moved to Texas, K5RXT was available, so I   
    RW>> applied for that one and got it. The former licensee lived in   
    RW>> Louisiana and went silent key.   
      
    EV> I'm a cheap LID, if I couldn't have swapped the Call for free I   
    EV> wouldn't of done it.   
      
   Waddaya gonna do when it comes time to renew your present call?   
      
    EV> W9ODR was owned by someone in Illinois before it was issued to me.   
    EV> I was the Original Owner of my other two Call Signs.   
      
   I guess none of my old call signs are wanted by anyone. They're still   
   available.   
      
      
            R\%/itt - K5RXT   
      
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