Subj : Re: Callsigns & BBS  was: Tra
To   : NANCY BACKUS
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Thu May 09 2019 09:55:00

-=> NANCY BACKUS wrote to DARYL STOUT <=-

 DS> The FCC normally issues callsigns in a sequential format...such as
 DS> N5VLX, N5VLY, N5VLZ (which was my first callsign), N5VMA, N5VMB,
 DS> N5VMC, etc. The 1x3 calls (1 letter, a number (the callsign district)
 DS> and 3 letters) have all been used

 NB> I'd guess that as operators either change their signs (by choice or
 NB> move) or die off, those original signs would become available to
 NB> others...

I always thought the shorter the call sign, the more senior the
operator. Phil Karn wrote a great TCP/IP stack for DOS back in the day
that he called KA9Q - that was apparently his callsign.




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