Thanks, Curt, for the encouraging words.  Along those same lines, if anyone
here ever needs any help with navigating the FCC website or anything else
that I can assist with, It will be, indeed, my pleasure to do whatever I
can.  I have built about every kind of antenna from skratch, and at one
time, I built quite a bit of my own equipment, but to be honest about it,
my equipment building days are over! <lol>  

I have been pretty inactive for the past several years, but now, I want to
get back into ham radio again.  So, I may be asking some of you for
recommendations re rigs, HF and VHF, that are blind user accessible.

Ron, AC4HM

At 04:30 PM 8/13/2012 -0500, you wrote:
>Hey Ron, I am pulling for you big time, and K8HSY is a neat call for 
>sure, so it should be yours. You should have it in about 3 weeks or 
>so from today's day if you applied, in fact, if you look on the web 
>site often about when it's expected to be approved, you may get 
>access to it a few days before the paper comes in the mail. I expect 
>mine 2 weeks from tomorrow or so, and can hardly wait to check into 
>our local weather net here in North Dakota as K6VFO. and what is fun 
>is to think that during the time of the normal role call, I am there 
>every single day without exception as W B 6 H E F, that I won't show 
>up until they call for  V W X, and then I'll check in with my new 
>call!  That is, if I can keep my big  mouth shut for that long! :)
>Good luck, and nostalgia is a wonderful thing, particularly when it 
>has to do with ham radio.
>
>Curt
>
>W B 6 H E F
>
>At 11:35 AM 8/13/2012, you wrote:
>>Greetings, this is AC4HM, Ron Milliman.  I am new to this list, but I am an
>>old ham.  I earned my first ham ticket way back in 1957 as KN8HSY.
>>However, I have moved around a bit, and in the earlier days of ham radio,
>>when you moved from one call district to another, you were required to
>>apply for a new call that represented the different call district.  Thus,
>>when I moved from Michigan to Arizona to attend Arizona State University, I
>>became W7GPF; when I moved to Texas to begin my university teaching career
>>at the University of Texas, I became N5UVL; then, when I moved over to
>>Kentucky to teach at Western Kentucky University, I became N5GSY, until I
>>earned my Extra class license and became AC4HM.  I never really liked
>>AC4HM, and as of this morning, I applied to get my old, original call back
>>of K8HSY.  Since that was my first call, it has always had very special
>>memories for me.
>>
>>Curt, I wish you the best of luck in getting the vanity call you requested.
>>  I would think that wouldn't be any problem.  Actually, I found the online
>>process for applying for a vanity call to be pretty easy.  So, if anyone
>>else is seriously thinking about it, you should not have any trouble with
>>the online procedure, providing you have your FCC Registration Number (FRN)
>>and password.  If you don't have one, you will need to apply for one.
>>
>>73,
>>Ron, AC4HM  --  Hopefully soon to be K8HSY once again!
>>
>>
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