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Curtis Delzer <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:04:28 -0500
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Well, now, seems while looking through calls I did see something 
about a c a t or k t y call sign.

At 08:07 PM 8/12/2012, you wrote:
>Hi Curt,
>I hope you get your call. I thought about changing mine to something 
>relating to cats but I decided to keep the one I have. I will 
>figured it would be easier than changing things and I also figured 
>it would be easier than letting people know about the change.
>I do hope you will get the call you want. That is a neat story. I am 
>glad that the superindendent of Schools was open-minded.
>I am anxiously waiting to hear your news.
>Colleen, N8TNV;
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Jim Stanga <[log in to unmask]>
>To:  [log in to unmask]
>Date: Sunday, Aug 12, 2012 08:29:19 PM
>Subject: Re: vanity call!
>
> >
> >
> > Curt,
> >
> > I enjoyed reading your post.
> > I hope you get the vanity call that you have requested.
> > I will stay tuned.
> >
> > 73, Jim KC9 U R D
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Curtis Delzer
> > Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 8:20 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: vanity call!
> >
> > Many of you know that I recently applied for a "vanity" ham call.
> > It is in process and should be handled on August 28. That is truly
> > fascinating since I got my first and only call on August 25, 1963.
> > Then, it was  W N 6 H E F, but was changed when I got my general, and
> > I never had the idea that just because I became an extra, that I
> > should highlight the fact with a one by two or two by one call, or
> > some other identifying call sign as to the status of my license class.
> > The call I want is K 6 V F O. There doesn't appear to be any reason
> > they shouldn't act on my application according to the status I see on
> > the radio QTH web site, so am I excited?  YOU BET!
> > The call sign, V F O, is part of my past too.  In 1963, W N 6 V F O,
> > was the super intendant of schools where I grew up in Lodi,
> > California, and I happened to bump into him on the air on 40M CW.
> > Important to me, at the time, was not to have to attend a Stockton
> > high school where all the rivals of the Lodi football team went to
> > school and so I asked if he, the super intendant, couldn't look into
> > the matter and help me.
> > He asked, on the air, at probably 12 WPM or so, how I would handle
> > all the materials, being blind, and all that. I told him about the
> > program which hired readers for us at the time, (there wasn't at that
> > time a so-called "rehabilitation" office as such but I believe it was
> > at least being planned to include helping blind people read their
> > books by hiring readers, so I asked him if he wouldn't look into it.
> > He did, I was the first blind attendee of the Lodi Unified school
> > district, in San Joaquin county, 1965 being my Sophomore year of high
> > school.  So, V F O, is an important call, and K 6 V F O, is available
> > as of July 31, 2012, where the 2 year grace period has run out for
> > the original vanity requestee in 2000, Steven Share, is his name.  He
> > lived in Milpitas, CA, and had the call from 2000 onward to 2010, do,
> > speculation reigns; did he die, or did he just lose interest?  He was
> > a Technician class licensee and had an earlier call, so I can't help
> > but be curious. Such a great call, I think, imagine how you'd stick
> > out of a pile-up with V F O, as your call.
> > I sure hope it'll be mine someday.  On CW, it takes the same time to
> > send W B 6 H E F as it does K 6 V F O, because of all the
> > combinations of dots and dashes, though mine, W B 6 H E F, on CW and
> > on phone is a problem for misunderstandings galore, as you can
> > imagine.  It takes skill to send  W B 6 H E F in CW, but there are a
> > huge bunch of phonetics I've gotten use too on phone, such as "high
> > energy fire cracker," or, "half empty fifth," or "harasses every
> > female," or, hamburgers every Friday," or "have enough faith." "Have
> > enough faith," is a great rallying cry for a lot of things, for which
> > faith is needed, so . . . as I say, the decision to do this is not
> > gone into lightly.
> > Comments will be appreciated, against, or for, for after having
> > something for forty nine years and then, changing it, is quite a
> > step.  It it not as though after accomplished, I cannot revoke it,
> > but I can at least wait for 2 years and see if  K 6 V F O, how it
> > feels, how it sounds, how it integrates into my style of operating,
> > etc.  I have been practicing saying it, though it may be premature,
> > after all, the FCC may not choose to act on it, it says on the QTH
> > site that they should do it on 8/28.
> > That would be a Tuesday, which was the 27th of August,
> > 1963.  Amazing!! My first contact on 40M CW was in 1963,
> > on August 25 using a DX35 Heath transmitter with a Hygain 14AVQ multi
> > band vertical at 6 to 1 SWR, and a Collins 75A1 receiver. He was , W
> > N 6 F L N in Norwalk, CA. It wasn't long before I got a better
> > antenna and different transmitter that didn't shock so much at the CW
> > key as that one did, 250 volts DC.
> > We sold our house here in North Dakota and will be moving to
> > California in a couple months or so.  The new call, with a new
> > address in California, hmm! Funny how everyone who hears  V F O,
> > immediately identifies it without confusion unlike H E F, or even,
> > the W B, gets confused when conditions aren't just right with W D, etc.
> >
> > Thanks, everyone, for reading this dissertation. :were
> > I did send it out before, but for some reason it didn't get posted.
> >
> > Curt
> >
> > W B 6 H E F
>
>

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