Wow Ron never realized you are a ham!  Its great you want to get back into
the hobby and am sure we all can help.  


Barb K1EIR

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Ronald E. Milliman
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 6:25 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: vanity call!

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!
>>
>>
>