[net.ham-radio] Call letters

hoffman%pitt@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA (Bob Hoffman) (02/11/86)

Call letters in the form KA4993 are mobile-only licenses issued
up until a couple of years ago, presumably when they ran out of
numbers.  For example, our fire department has three sets of call
letters:
	KGE609 -- Base station only at station #1
	KIT823 -- Base station only at station #2
	KC7766 -- All mobiles and portables at both stations.

This was required because the licensee name is the same on all
licenses.  Mobile-only licenses issued recently have five digits instead
of four, and I can't remember offhand whether there are two, three,
or four letters in front.  Recent Base-only and Base-Mobile licenses
are of the form KNxx000 -- four letters beginning with KN, followed by
three digits.

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Bob Hoffman, N3CVL       {allegra, bellcore, cadre, idis, psuvax1}!pitt!hoffman
Pitt Computer Science    hoffman%pitt@csnet-relay