{"id":7495,"date":"2018-11-24T13:02:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T20:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2018\/11\/24\/ham-radio-vanity-callsign-bonanza-day-results\/"},"modified":"2018-11-24T13:02:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T20:02:13","slug":"ham-radio-vanity-callsign-bonanza-day-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2018\/11\/24\/ham-radio-vanity-callsign-bonanza-day-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Ham Radio Vanity Callsign Bonanza Day Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/w7gd-house.jpg' title='New QSL Card'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/w7gd-house.jpg' alt='New QSL Card' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Vanity Quest for a new 7th area Ham Radio Callsign is now over. We managed to get picked and won the callsign seen above. It was my third choice on <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/call-list.jpg\">the list<\/a> I submitted in my application to the FCC on the 5th of November. I achieved my goal of having the new call before the end of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>I started the Vanity Quest last January for a 7th district call when I &#8220;harvested&#8221; a silent key&#8217;s (deceased ham&#8217;s) amateur radio callsign by providing a letter requesting the call be released for reissue and a copy of the obituary to the FCC. I was disappointed when I didn&#8217;t get that call because the suffix was my first and last name initials. I was doubly disappointed when a guy from Illinois (out of the 7th district) got the call.<\/p>\n<p>Before today&#8217;s result, I applied for 21 callsigns on 19 applications, all of which were dismissed. This morning when I read my email, the FCC notice was in my inbox. Now, I am pleased with the fact I got an old-timer W7 call and am happy with the Quest being at an end. <\/p>\n<p>Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vanity Quest for a new 7th area Ham Radio Callsign is now over. We managed to get picked and won the callsign seen above. It&#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":[83,19,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notions","category-retirement","category-technology-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495","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=7495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}