Finding date of my first license

[turtleiii]

N4MC's Vanity HQ shows my earliest license (KE4UNP) tech+ as issued 1/13/95 but I know I had a license earlier than that year. From Internet sources I find that license terms have been ten years beginning in 1984 so that suggests that my original license would be in early 1985 and renewed in early 1995 but the 1987 Radio Amateur Callbook does not show me with the UNP suffixes. I haven't changed my call sign and I'm trying to see if I can get credit for an upgrade to general. Would appreciate any advice.

 

[KG4INW]

Hmm, from knowing that they systematically go through call signs, and from having friends who were issued call signs from the early 90's that start with KD4 and earlier KE4's (alphabetically lower than UNP), I'd suggest yours was from the early 90's as well.

 

[rescue161]

I want to say I took the test around May of 1993? I know I got ticket in the mail in September, 1993. I want to say it was about a 4 month wait. KE4FHH was and still is my call.

 

[turtleiii]

Ehtuttle

Thanks for your responses. I guess I had better start studying for element 3!

 

[GSPD]

If you're a member of the ARRL they may be able to help you. I have requested information on past licensee's via their website. They do maintain some sort of archive......

 

[KR4BD]

My son, KE4TIF, got his first license in late 1994. He was 12 at the time.

 

[Token]

I haven't changed my call sign and I'm trying to see if I can get credit for an upgrade to general. Would appreciate any advice.

I do not understand this quote.

Tech +, as a license, was not assigned until 1991 and after, the first year of the no-code tech. Prior to that all Techs were in essence "+" or with code and there was no need to differentiate, they already had Novice privileges. It was not until 1994 that the designation "Technician Plus HF" was official though.

As of 2000 all Tech + holders who had been licensed prior to 1987 (prior to 1987 Tech was a person who passed the General test, element 3, but with only the Novice 5 WPM code) could file to be upgraded to General by just applying for the General license, I think all you have to do is file a form 605? The FCC has your date of original license on file.

However, it looks like callsign KE4UNP was first issued December 1994 or January of 1995, or are you saying you were assigned out of sequence and before 1987? Unless out of sequence you would only have taken, passed, and received credit for, the Novice and Tech written test, so you would not be eligible for the upgrade to General. If you did take the General test at that time and pass it you would only have had a limited time to apply the credit for an upgrade, and still would have had to pass the 13 WPM CW test.

T!

 

[KR4BD]

Just checked my other son's license. His call is KE4UKT, which is VERY CLOSE to KE4UNP. He got his Novice Ticket in January, 1995 at the age of 10 1/2.

Shortly thereafter, he upgraded to Tech Plus.

 

[rescue161]

Bringing this back from the dead...

I was digging through some old boxes in the attic and found my VE "Certificate of Successfull Completion of Examination" form dated July 3rd, 1993. I was issued my call on September 14th, 1993 and I didn't get the ticket in hand until a week or so later. So it took a little over two and a half months for them to get the license to me.

That wait sure seemed like a lifetime though.

 

[nexus]

N4MC's Vanity HQ shows my earliest license (KE4UNP) tech+ as issued 1/13/95 but I know I had a license earlier than that year. From Internet sources I find that license terms have been ten years beginning in 1984 so that suggests that my original license would be in early 1985 and renewed in early 1995 but the 1987 Radio Amateur Callbook does not show me with the UNP suffixes. I haven't changed my call sign and I'm trying to see if I can get credit for an upgrade to general. Would appreciate any advice.

QRZ's callsign database has a section for you to lookup old callsign data. So you should be able to easily lookup a callsign from the 80's using that option.

old callsign lookup

I was able to look up my first license from 1988 in there.