HI Colleen,
Ah yes, cats, love them myself.
So, if ya have one, give him/her a big pet for me!
Trippy, ac8s
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Colleen Roth 
  To: [log in to unmask] 
  Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 9:07 PM
  Subject: Re: vanity call!


  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