{"id":7474,"date":"2018-10-20T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T19:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2018\/10\/20\/ham-radio-vanity-callsign-quest\/"},"modified":"2018-10-21T11:28:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T18:28:36","slug":"ham-radio-vanity-callsign-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2018\/10\/20\/ham-radio-vanity-callsign-quest\/","title":{"rendered":"Ham Radio Vanity Callsign Quest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/us_amateur_callsign_regions.jpg' title='Amateur Callsign Regions'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/us_amateur_callsign_regions.jpg' alt='Amateur Callsign Regions' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Amateur Radio Callsign Regions &#8211; Click to enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since we have escaped from California and now live in the 7th call area (the free state of Arizona), I am trying to dump the 2&#215;1 6th area (California) callsign in favor of a K\/N\/W7x2 vanity call. As of today, I&#8217;m 0 for 19 tries with one vanity application still pending. I am hoping to have a new 7th area callsign by the end of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>This post is actually a continuation of a series started on the <em>Minstrel<\/em> a while back. Those posts are currently inaccessible via HTTP but somewhat accessible to me via FTP. More on that as things progress.<\/p>\n<p>The process of getting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/vanity-call-signs\">Vanity Callsign<\/a> is fairly simple. You apply for an account sign-in on the <a href=\"http:\/\/wireless.fcc.gov\/uls\/index.htm?job=home\">FCC ULS<\/a> (Universal Licensing System) and apply for your vanity callsign there. A couple of sources to see what calls are available are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioqth.net\/vanity\">Radio QTH Vanity Calls<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ae7q.com\/query\/\">AE7Q Query Tools<\/a>. Either of these sites provide which calls are available and much more.<\/p>\n<p>The competition is quite intense when applying for these popular callsigns, hence the lack of success as mentioned in the first paragraph. I have seen the odds vary from 68:1 down to 4:1 over the nineteen unsuccessful tries. The probability for success of my current application for <strong><code>W7EC<\/code><\/strong> is 5.56% with seventeen other competitors. All applications received for a given vanity call are electronically tossed into a hat and a random winner selected.<\/p>\n<p>I will post updates to this  effort as time progresses. Wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Amateur Radio Callsign Regions &#8211; Click to enlarge. Since we have escaped from California and now live in the 7th call area (the free state&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notions","category-technology-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}