KØHB wrote:

"N2EY" wrote


And the alphabetic order of license told who was an OT and who was a

newbie.

W3ABC was an OT compared to W3YIK. W3YIK was an OT compared to K3NYT.

K3NYT was

an OT compared to WA3IYC. Etc. Usually, anyway.



Not necessarily. Since we all got a new call sign everytime we moved, we
might trade an 'old' call in Minnesota (W0ABC) for a 'new' call in Virginia
(WA4ABC). Not only couldn't you tell how long we'd been licensed, but you
couldn't tell our license class (except for Novices with KN, WN, or WV
prefixes). My mentor, W0VDI, was licensed at a Tech in 1952 and went SK 50
years later with the same call and the same Tech license.

My call was a re-issue, I received a K prefix call while my friends who
received calls about the same time got WA and WB prefix calls. One had
received his WA call sometime before I got the K call.