Hi all -
So this is a weird question, I know. As you might be able to tell from my handle, I am a ham... or rather, I was. I dumbly let it expire a few years ago because I was just too busy with life and I didn't translate either.
That said, I am going to get that ticket back this summer. I'll take the general and no doubt I'll pass it. Just have to get around to it.
Well, the thing is I'd really like a vanity call sign that is taken. W2XBS. This call sign belongs to an amateur and won't expire until 2028, and may well be renewed then anyway. It'd really like it... I mean... bigtime. I think that it's so meaningful and significant for me to have this call sign that some might support giving it to me just because of how I want to use it.
This call sign was used in the 1930's for the field tests of television. Also for a lot of radio stuff, because it was assigned to RCA/NBC and was the call sign used for various test public broadcasts. It was the one used when television was first demonstrated to the public, July 7 1936. It was used for the World's Fair TV.
I'd like to bring this call sign back home to where it belongs. I'd like to reestablish W2XBS transmissions where they started and haven't happened for 70 years (since switching to WNBT and then WNBC). I want to use W2XBS to transmit 343 line television using the OLD OLD OLD school analog format. I may even want to use it to transmit mechanical TV.
And I plan on doing it from my office, because:
1. It's totally possible to bring SDR radio stuff to an office and setup a temporary mini-shack.
2. I'm sure that my employer won't mind me doing it
3. You can register your ham license anywhere you can receive mail (So it can be your actual house, a vacation house, parents house if you're at college, PO Box, and YES WORKPLACE)
My work Address is:
Steve Packard - DDTL, RFA
41st Floor
30 Rockefeller Plaza
Radio City, New York, NY 10112
So you see why I so want this call sign that I would be willing to pay a lot for it? I want to bring this thing back home
So this is a weird question, I know. As you might be able to tell from my handle, I am a ham... or rather, I was. I dumbly let it expire a few years ago because I was just too busy with life and I didn't translate either.
That said, I am going to get that ticket back this summer. I'll take the general and no doubt I'll pass it. Just have to get around to it.
Well, the thing is I'd really like a vanity call sign that is taken. W2XBS. This call sign belongs to an amateur and won't expire until 2028, and may well be renewed then anyway. It'd really like it... I mean... bigtime. I think that it's so meaningful and significant for me to have this call sign that some might support giving it to me just because of how I want to use it.
This call sign was used in the 1930's for the field tests of television. Also for a lot of radio stuff, because it was assigned to RCA/NBC and was the call sign used for various test public broadcasts. It was the one used when television was first demonstrated to the public, July 7 1936. It was used for the World's Fair TV.
I'd like to bring this call sign back home to where it belongs. I'd like to reestablish W2XBS transmissions where they started and haven't happened for 70 years (since switching to WNBT and then WNBC). I want to use W2XBS to transmit 343 line television using the OLD OLD OLD school analog format. I may even want to use it to transmit mechanical TV.
And I plan on doing it from my office, because:
1. It's totally possible to bring SDR radio stuff to an office and setup a temporary mini-shack.
2. I'm sure that my employer won't mind me doing it
3. You can register your ham license anywhere you can receive mail (So it can be your actual house, a vacation house, parents house if you're at college, PO Box, and YES WORKPLACE)
My work Address is:
Steve Packard - DDTL, RFA
41st Floor
30 Rockefeller Plaza
Radio City, New York, NY 10112
So you see why I so want this call sign that I would be willing to pay a lot for it? I want to bring this thing back home