If your call is a vanity call, you had to make sure you specified that, I 
remember reading that somewhere otherwise they'll give you what ever they 
want. You have to pay the current vanity fee as well with it. I'm guessing 
yours is, if not they did some pretty interesting picking it for you.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 1:54 PM
Subject: License Renewal Saga


> Hi.
>
> I am in the process of trying to renew my license as it expires on
> 5/6/08.  I received a packet from W5YI VEC in early February with all of
> the forms supposedly already completed so that all I had to do was sign 
> it,
> and include a check with the vanity call fee and their $7.00 service
> fee.  While I probably should have gone through the ARRL (cheaper), it
> meant having to contact them and get the same stuff by placing a phone 
> call
> during business hours and making a long distance call from work is
> something I hate to do.
>
> So, I took what I thought was the path of least resistance and just wrote
> out the check, signed the forms, and shipped it off.
>
> Here is what happened.  On February 26, 2008 the license for K2LKK was
> updated.  However, nothing changed.  It still expires on 5/6/08 and every
> other detail of the license is still active.  Also, my former call, 
> KA2DQA,
> is now issued to me once again, but it also expires on 5/6/08.
>
> I have sent e-mails off to W5YI asking them about this, and I intend to
> bite the bullet and follow it up with a telephone call on Monday to see if
> I can investigate what happened.
>
> I guess the next time I will just contact the ARRL since I'm going to have
> to make a long distance phone call anyway, and I'm $7 poorer to boot.  You
> know, I miss the good days when the FCC handled this stuff directly and we
> had only one bureaucracy to deal with instead of two.
>
> 73, de Lou (K2LKK or KA2DQA -- only the Shadow knows...)
>
>
>
> Louis Kim Kline
> A.R.S. K2LKK
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> Work e-mail:  [log in to unmask]
> Work Telephone:  (585) 697-5740
>