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- ARLB037 Vanity call comments
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- ARRL Bulletin 37 ARLB037
- >From ARRL Headquarters
- Newington CT April 22, 1994
- To all radio amateurs
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- SB QST ARL ARLB037
- ARLB037 Vanity call comments
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- Vanity call comments made
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- The ARRL has filed comments on an FCC proposal, in PR Docket 93-305,
- to establish a ''vanity'' call sign program for amateurs. The
- League's comments are consistent with recommendations of its ad hoc
- committee on the subject, as reported in an April 11 official
- bulletin and in The ARRL Letter.
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- The League emphasized that an orderly assignment system is vital to
- ensuring as much fairness as possible in the issuing of such call
- signs, and to that end proposed a series of four steps, or ''gates,''
- under which applications would be accepted.
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- The ARRL said that a one-time application fee for a vanity call sign
- was preferable to an annual fee, since the processing takes place
- only once, and that an ''up front'' fee would discourage frivolous,
- frequent requests for new call signs.
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- The League's comments also asked that those seeking a call sign
- formerly held, or the call sign of a deceased family member, not be
- bound by another recommendation, that call signs be issued only in
- the call area where the licensee lives.
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- Details will appear in June QST.
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