Mike,

Those were great; in fact, they all were good and fun call signs to have.

Phil.
K0NX


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 7:55 PM
Subject: More Call Phonetics


> Here is a list of calls I know, have talked with, or 
> listened to.
> 
> 
> Long Red Underware
> Fried Apple Pie
> Old Empty Bottle, (or bucket, depending on the time of day)
> Amateur's Ugly Rascal, (he wasn't very pretty, or so I'm 
> told)
> Quiver My Liver
> I Move Trains (held by a railroad engineer)
> Red Headed Duck
> Zipper Ripper
> Ice Cream
> General High School
> 
> My wife and I are friends with a couple, and the man will 
> introduce his wife as K 5 "My Old Lady." That really is the 
> call she has held since the late 50's.
> His call is "Pretty Good Whisky."
> 
> A baptist preacher in this area has "Preaching Every 
> Sunday." (That one was not a vanity.)
> 
> Another friend is "Single Again."
> 
> My long time and now late friend in Clinton, Iowa, was 
> "Radio's Worst Contraption."
> Another late friend was KM5 General Electric. (No, he worked 
> in a bank, and got that one randomly.)
> 
> My former neighbor who had retired from both the Navy and 
> the Merchant Marines as a shipboard radio operator was K6 
> Mother Goose
> 
> A local television engineer changed his call to W5 Audio 
> Video.
> 
> A friend, whose name was Don, received the call N O 5D, or 
> Don spelled backward.
> 
> Another Don I knew had a 2 by 2 call the suffix of which was 
> VD. He was effectionally known far and wide on the radio as 
> "Dirty Don."
> 
> 
> 
> Mike Duke, K5XU
> American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs
>