Harry, yeah, I used to use the call of N5UVL -- 
N5 ugly vicious lion and I had a shirt custom made with a big
vicious-looking lion on the back with my call and the words: ugly vicious
lion on it that I wore to the ham club meetings and to the hamfests.  

You have a much better memory than I.  I sure don't remember very many
calls of the people I used to work, not even those on regular skheds.

Ron, AC4HM


At 02:39 PM 8/14/2012 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Ron,
>Oh my goodness, n5UVL! I heard, or worked, that call, years ago!
>73,
>Trippy, ac8s, PS, I hope you get your old k8 call back!
>  ----- Original Message -----=20
>  From: Ronald E. Milliman=20
>  To: [log in to unmask]
>  Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 12:35 PM
>  Subject: Re: vanity call!
>
>
>  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. =20
>
>  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!
>