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  • Re: Amateur Radio Callsigns

    From Argos@21:1/203 to tallship on Sun Jan 11 02:51:41 2026

    License currently expired, after being licensed for more than 20yrs I think (don't ask, it just happened and I let it lapse like a goombah),
    but working actively to get it back again this year. You can look me up and/or contact me over at QRZ.


    I am a VEC and if your license expired, this is no biggie if it is under 24 months. This is a grace period the FCC allows and will automatically renew
    your license for free .... all you need to do is log into the ULS website to renew or renew through QRZ, ARRL or W5YI .....

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  • From Argos@21:1/203 to tallship on Sun Jan 11 02:51:41 2026

    I was informed at the time my alternative consists of testing again (no biggie), and paying a vanity fee forever if I want my old call sign (kd6ncg) back. And I have my ham radio license plates with my call sign too. That's the part that stings, that they'll call it a vanity call and charge me for it.


    I you have some time, I would reach out to the ARRL. Call them and find out what options are available, just shy of retesting.

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to tallship on Sun Jan 11 02:51:41 2026
    On 11-21-19 14:09, tallship wrote to garycrunk <=-

    I got an official call from the FCC way way back in the day (I think I
    was 11 years old?) for 11 meters (Citizens Band, in the 23 channel
    era).

    My call sign was KYE4358

    Before the mid 1990s, Australia required individual CB licences and my CBs were licensed back then. My official callsign was VGE610.

    Later, it was determined by the powers that be that it was illegal or unconstitutional or something like that, and getting licensed for transmitting over an unlicensed part of the spectrum was optional
    anyway, and more of a vanity thing as I remember it.

    In Australia, the authorities decided it wasn't worth the hassle, and they switched to a "class licence" model, which simply means that one just needs to be using type approved equipment and operate according to the regulations.


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to tallship on Sun Jan 11 02:51:41 2026
    On 11-21-19 14:15, tallship wrote to garycrunk <=-

    hehheh heh.... And then I basically disavowed any association with Citizen's Band Radio when I got my Amateur radio ticket. But I would continue to listen to some of those crazy folks on my modified FT-707 -

    I actually ran CB (with legal type approved gear) amd amateur radio side by side for many years, as many of my friends stayed on CB, while I enjoyed the broader realm of amateur radio as well.


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