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ae2ny
09-02-2005, 10:00 AM
It is now 1000Z as I write this and I have just checked the FCC Database. W8ANT is cancelled and I am now AE2NY.
This makes myself a good call simply because the AE could mean Amateur Extra or Anthony Ellrodt, either one, and I moved 2 New York. Not bad!
Anthony Ellrodt 2 New York.
And believe it or not, the XYL came up with that one and asked me to see if it was available.
She has a better head on her shoulders than I do sometimes, HI HI!
Anthony - AE2NY
N5PVL
09-02-2005, 10:13 AM
Most excellent! #Congratulations on obtaining your new call.
N8CPA
09-02-2005, 10:25 AM
Vanity oh vanity!
What the heck! It's a nice call. Congratulations!
WA2ZDY
09-02-2005, 10:29 AM
Congratulations on getting the call of your choice!
While I got to admit I'm going to miss your ANT call, Congratulations.
I suppose you're now an official 2-lander now. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Congradulations on the new call! My call is original and say it as Amateur Extra 1 wrong (X) used by teachers to make stuff wrong!
Ken
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K8ERV
09-02-2005, 08:27 PM
I kinda liked ANT. One of those little creatures. I step on them. Oh well, will have to find somthing else to stomp on. Maybe Glen.
TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo
K6BBC
09-02-2005, 10:44 PM
AE is not a real call. Should have stuck with W8 -- but I'm an old fart.
ae2ny
09-02-2005, 10:49 PM
Just out of sheer curiousity, how is not a real call?
Anthony - AE2NY
K7KBN
09-02-2005, 11:09 PM
"REAL" calls start with W or K (no "A"s or "N"s), one number, and two (or three) letters for the suffix. #That's the way it was back when BBC and I were first licensed.
Of course, that was at least a lifetime ago... http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
AD5UT
09-03-2005, 12:25 AM
Congrats on the call change anthony. Nice call.
K6BBC
09-03-2005, 01:48 AM
Quote[/b] (k7kbn @ Sep. 02 2005,16:09)]"REAL" calls start with W or K (no "A"s or "N"s), one number, and two (or three) letters for the suffix. #That's the way it was back when BBC and I were first licensed.
Of course, that was at least a lifetime ago... http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
Sadly, you are correct. I'm a geezer.
KC9ECI
09-03-2005, 01:59 AM
Wow, that was close! I thought for a bit that perhaps my call wasn't a real one. Maybe it isn't though...maybe a real call starts with a number and is follwed by 2 letters, like 1AW, now there's a real call!
k4kyv
09-03-2005, 02:14 AM
Reminds me of some of the historic AM broadcast stations that had the old 3-letter calls (like WSM, WWL, WBZ, KFI, etc). When they got bought out by a new outfit, they gave up their historic callsign and changed to some humdrum 4-letter combination with no distinction whatever.
KC9ECI
09-03-2005, 02:17 AM
Here's a link to 9XM, currently known as Wisconsin Public Radio. http://www.portalwisconsin.org/9xm.cfm
wa4brl
09-03-2005, 02:38 AM
Congrats on the new call, Anthony! Of course, I won't be able to QSO with you on air now, as your call doesn't start with a W, K, WA, or WB. Why, you could turn out to be pirating that new-fangled call, or WORSE, be one of thos newbys who hasn't been licensed for 25 years.
Just Kidding, of course. I'm old, but not yet THAT much of a fart! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif
I, too, will miss the "ANT". UP AND AT 'EM, AE2NY! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Congrats Ant-nee, AE2NY. Cool!
AA0CX
09-03-2005, 01:36 PM
Hey Anthony;
Congrats on the new call! #
from a kinda-geezer with an "AA" prefix!
Quote[/b] (k6bbc @ Sep. 02 2005,15:44)]AE is not a real call. #Should have stuck with W8 -- but I'm an old fart.
Hey! I was AE1AE in 1967!
Cortland
KA5S
Quote[/b] (wa4brl @ Sep. 02 2005,19:38)]... or WORSE, be one of thos newbys who hasn't been licensed for 25 years.
W0RSE is an op in Lakewood CO. Heh!
Cortland
KA5S
Quote[/b] (ae2ny @ Sep. 02 2005,03:00)]It is now 1000Z as I write this and I have just checked the FCC Database. #W8ANT is cancelled and I am now AE2NY.
This makes myself a good call simply because...
I heard you changed your call,
And now I wonder, with a frown,
Is your ANT all really gone,
And finally taken down?
And is your beam unboomed and banged
A'rattlin' on the ground?
An ANT no more to send
A dot, a dash, a sound?
(also see http://bible.cc/ecclesiastes/4-7.htm)
Ha!
Cortland
KA5S
KA4DPO
09-03-2005, 05:24 PM
Quote[/b] (ka5s @ Sep. 03 2005,10:06)]Quote[/b] (k6bbc @ Sep. 02 2005,15:44)]AE is not a real call. #Should have stuck with W8 -- but I'm an old fart.
Hey! I was AE1AE in 1967!
Cortland
KA5S
See AE2NY is a real call after all.
Congats on getting a very cool call sign...
K8EEI
09-03-2005, 09:13 PM
2 NY
To New York
To NY
Tony
Hey , that's the nickname for Anthony http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
n5tjd
09-03-2005, 10:02 PM
The possiblilities are endless. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
I'll miss the 'ANT' also, but tis a good call, and at least your call matches the call district you are in and even reflects your location (NY)... and you license class. Nice.
Quote[/b] (KA4DPO @ Sep. 03 2005,10:24)]See AE2NY is a real call after all.
(I didn't say AE1AE was an Amateur callsign. It was a MARS callsign issued me by the Army in Germany based on my German license at the time, DL4AE.)
But AE2NY is indeed a very cool call, as ae2nyone can see!
Cortland
KA5S
N0KLT
09-04-2005, 05:29 PM
Great call Anthony. Don't let the naysayers get to you. I can remember some of the older guys with the K#xxx calls saying the older guys of their time said they wouldn't talk to them cuz they didn't have real calls or weren't real hams. The guys with calls like mine endured the same nonsense. Luckily I got mine long enough after they were first started there wasn't much of that. Now I hear it from the 1x3 calls around here and older that the kc whatever calls are not real calls, etc. The use of the call is the proof if the person is a real ham or not, not how the call is structured. Enjoy the new areas to roam on the band and the new toys to play with.
It is all about self expression! Congrats on getting a call you really like to have!
Mike, K7MH, ex KO7G, ex WA7QII, ex WN7QII (I allways hated the II thing!) #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
New calls are nice, but "KD5OWO" was issued to me, and I am going to stick with this callsign. Good luck with AE2NY..
KC9ECI
09-04-2005, 08:43 PM
Much the same way I feel about KC9ECI. I've gotten attatched to it.