On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:19:16 GMT, Dave Heil
wrote:

Kim W5TIT wrote:
snip

Do you practice being an

[word deleted]

, Dave? You must...because you're nearly perfect at it.

What experience qualifies you to assess such perfection, Kim?

Um, one doesn't have to be a professional hockey player to appreciate
the talent of a Wayne Gretzky, do they?


Dave K8MN

73, Leo

"Kim W5TIT" wrote:

I never even realized your call was
a vanity call, Dwight. (snip)


I wanted a callsign that said something about me, not just a number with a
random group of letters. It's also easier for others (and me on bad days) to
remember. Anyway, as Dee noted, it's fairly easy to spot a vanity call once
you know what to look for.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/

"Dave Heil" wrote:

You really think in that way? Do
you think I'd approve if Kim had
chosen a vulgar name for a male
body part to use as the suffix of
her call?


Luckily, we have fewer "vulgar" body parts to worry about. Men have
chests too, but that somehow escaped being vulgar. As my wife would say,
perhaps because men mostly decided what is vulgar over the years. As a
result, chests with protrusions are vulgar (with special little names like
"tits"), while those without protrusions are not.


Excellent dodge of the statement,
Dwight. You might have a future
in politics.


No, I'm a little too opinionated for that.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/

Dave Heil wrote in message ...
Brian wrote:

Leo wrote in message . ..
On 13 Jan 2004 09:54:02 -0800, (N2EY) wrote:

I am aware that you preceive it that way. Are you aware that no disrespect
was intended?

No.

Unfortunately, the Gutenberg press doesn't lend itself to the full
range of human vocal expression and we often infer emotion based upon
prior typed exchanges with our victims.

Who do you know who is currently using a Gutenberg press, Brian?

Dave K8MN

Dave, why does your communication present itself in font format? Are
you using a Gootenburg press?

Dave Heil wrote in message ...

Why not admit that you fall short of being able to read and understand?

At the end of the day, we learn that only Dave has understanding and
everyone else has problems.

Why is that so laughable?

Dave Heil wrote in message ...
Brian wrote:

Dave Heil wrote in message ...

I have given some thought to my choice of callsigns and feel that I may have made a mistake. My choice reflects badly on amateur radio and on me as an individual.

Or, "I have given some thought to my choice of working Frenchmen out
of band on 6M, and feel that I may have made a mistake. My choice
reflects badly on amateur radio and on me as an individual."

Dave, do you recognize yourself in this alternative scenario?

You had a chance to use the technique I illustrated for Kim. You hosed
it up.

Dave K8MN

You also had the opportunity to use this technique. You smugged it up.

"Dee D. Flint" wrote in message
gy.com...

"Kim W5TIT" wrote in message
...
"Dwight Stewart" wrote in message
nk.net...

A friend, a very long time ham with a "W" call, suggested my
callsign.
He
liked the "W5" part (same as a call he had years ago, I think) and
thought
the "net" part was cute because of my long computer experience (I was
helping him with his computer at the time).


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/


I never even realized your call was a vanity call, Dwight. And, neat
that
you came up with something creative!

Kim W5TIT



There are sometimes easily spotted clues. For example, anyone who has
received their first license after about 1994 in the contiguous 48 states
and that first license was a Tech or General will have a 2x3 call unless
they have a vanity call or upgraded to Advanced or Extra and got a new
sequential one from those pools. The sequentially assigned 1x3s
disappeared
in most call areas by the end of 1994 though some areas may have had a few
still available for a year or so after that.

For example, I recieved my call in 1993 and you can see that in call area
8
we were close to the end of the sequentially assigned 1x3s beginning with
N.
The sequentially assigned 1x3s beginning with K or W had been used up some
years before that.

Or you could just look it up in the FCC database.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE


Precisely. But, I generally don't give second thoughts to the age,
origination, or type of call someone has... Dwight shared that his is a
vanity callsign. I think his choice is neat, but haven't been inspired to
"lookup" someone's call to glean information about it.

But, good information...

Kim W5TIT

"Dave Heil" wrote in message
...
Dwight Stewart wrote:


Maybe you're the kind of fellow who
would be proud to have his wife, mother
or daughter choose a similar call. I'm not.

I wouldn't even attempt to tell my wife, mother, or adult daughter,
which
callsign to select for themselves. All of these women clearly have
enough
intelligence to select the callsign they want, whatever it might be.

Excellent dodge of the statement, Dwight. You might have a future in
politics.

Dave K8MN

Only Dave Heil could see a direct response to a statement as a "dodge."
Hilarious...

Kim W5TIT

In article , Leo
writes:

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:19:16 GMT, Dave Heil
wrote:

Kim W5TIT wrote:
snip

Do you practice being an

[word deleted]

, Dave? You must...because you're nearly perfect at it.

What experience qualifies you to assess such perfection, Kim?

Um, one doesn't have to be a professional hockey player to appreciate
the talent of a Wayne Gretzky, do they?

Big Dave has a curious set of "qualifications" on almost
everything.

For example, Dave thinks "interest in radio" is manifest by learning
and using morse code. He will accept NO other "interest," not
even those who got into electronics and radio as a professional
career.

If Big Dave thinks something is "tasteless and tacky," then ALL
must think so...or be judged inferior, themselves without taste
or morals.

Big Dave's standard of excellence in everything is Big Dave. He
sets himself up as the Role Model in all things. There shall be
No Variation. Everything prim and proper, sexless in fact.

Big Dave isn't into electronic homebrewing. If he was, he would
have to handle "nuts" and "screws" and other [expletive deleted]
fasteners. He couldn't bear to think of using a "screw driver" or
a wire cutter ("dikes" - yikes). Insulated wire cannot be
"stripped." Such is tasteless and tacky.

Hiram forbid that any of his equipment pops fuses. He
couldn't bear to think of "blowing" a fuse! [that's tasteless and
tacky, if not obscene]

LHA / WMD

Dave Heil wrote:


I wouldn't even attempt to tell my wife, mother, or adult daughter, which
callsign to select for themselves. All of these women clearly have enough
intelligence to select the callsign they want, whatever it might be.


Excellent dodge of the statement, Dwight. You might have a future in
politics.

LOL!! My wife, who seldom makes any comment on anything pretaining to
amature radio, just walked into the room, looked over my shoulder and
upon seeing kim's call sign displayed in the newsgroup header said, "who
would be issued a call sign like that?" After explaining it was a vanity
call sign and the person requested it, her comment was, "what kind of
idiot would ever choose such a call sign?"
I ask her if she thought it was vulgar. "Not really vulgar, just
suggestive and totally lacking in taste, I suppose some people have to
get attention anyway they can".