Up until November 31, I was KF0BBY. That was the call sign I was assigned when I got my Technician license. When I got my General a month after I got my Technician, I kept my call sign and didn’t apply for a vanity because I wanted to use it as motivation to get my Extra.
When I got on HF, I set up a lot of accounts since a whole new world was opened to me on HF. This included Winlink and other things I didn’t really know about or didn’tknow I wanted to use or not.
When I got my Extra a month after my General, I applied for a vanity call sign even though I became to like (and remember KF0BBY). 1 think I didn’t like about KF0BBY was the doubled letter. This has been confusing because some people think you’re repeating it for clarity.
On Nov 13 I got my vanity call sign AE0RS which I applied for. I got lucky with the prefix – AE for “Amateur Extra” 0 for my region and then my initials, like a lot of other people. This is actually an “Advanced” call sign but 1×2 and 2×1 were impossible to wade my way through on some websites so I gave up. Plus this one is actually personal to me.
Anyway, Winter Field Day came and went this weekend and one of the things I didn’t do is use WinLink. Now that I’m re-learning WinLink, I logged in with my old call sign and it let me! It also let me check my email and I notice I (well, KF0BBY) have a lot of email in there. Mostly retransmissions and some spam. I’m not sure what to do with it. None if it seems personally addressed to me.
update: I’m a dummy load. This isn’t kf0bby’s email. This is the US Amateur Radio Message Viewer which is EVERYBODY’S email! I thought I clicked “My Webmail” <and ignored the message on the next screen>. Oh body.
OK my ae0rs winlink should be working. Email away, fellow hams!
73,
ae0rs
