Subj : FidoGazette Vol 13 no
To   : Dan Clough
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Wed Sep 18 2019 13:09:43

Hello Dan.

18 Sep 19 07:15, you wrote to Daryl Stout:

 DS>>   I think there is more than one "Daryl Stout" in existence...but
 DS>> there's only one ham radio operator in the world with the
 DS>> callsign WX4QZ (me).

 DC> Ummmmm, okay.

Let me explain Daryl's thoughts a little: we amateur radio operators are proud 
of our callsign.  We've worked hard to get it and a callsign is like a 
fingerprint: you are the only one in the entire world with that callsign.  My 
amateur radio callsign is KD5COL -- again, I am the only one in the world with 
that callsign and it identifes me uniquely.  I've held that single callsign for 
22 years now since having it assigned to me by the Federal Communications 
Commission in 1997.

It may not make complete sense to you but we hams consider our callsign a thing 
of pride and we normally identify each other by our callsigns rather than our 
names.  Daryl will frequently address me as "COL"; that is common amongst hams.

73 DE KD5COL (best regards from KD5COL),
Sean
(who's a ham in more ways than one)

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