Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Nov 19 2020 23:39:05

KICKER: WHEN A SPECIAL CALLSIGN COMES A-CALLING

DON/ANCHOR: Finally, do you believe in coincidence? Well this week's 
final story - about two YLs in Oregon, and one special callsign - might 
leave you wondering. Here's Kent Peterson, KC0DGY.

KENT: Marjory Ramey and Hannah Rosenfeld are separated by seven decades 
but united by four letters and a number: W7HER. That became Hannah's 
vanity call this summer after the Oregon college student, who belongs to 
a family of hams, passed her Extra Class exam, encouraged by her father 
Scott, N7JI.

Scott N7JI wrote on QRZ.COM that [quote] "It's obviously an ideal call 
sign for a YL."

No doubt Marjory Ramey would agree. Now 95 years old, she was known as 
Marjory Allingham in 1939 when the callsign was hers. Like Hannah, 
Marjory was also part of a ham family - her father William held the 
callsign W7KY, and her mother, Lucille, was W7FXE.

Scott unearthed all this during a dig in the online archive of Radio 
Amateur Callbooks to learn more about his daughter's new callsign. He 
later discovered Marjory's house was just a mile away right in their 
hometown. Marjory, who is no longer active in amateur radio, was still 
happy to have an eyeball QSO with the current holder of the callsign -- 
and in September they met. Marjory gave Hannah some advice about the 
University of Oregon, which Hannah now attends -- and which is Marjory's 
alma mater.

Though no QSL cards will be sent from that eyeball QSO, Scott and Hannah 
assured Marjory that W7HER will be checking in with her from campus every 
now and again.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Kent Peterson, KC0DGY.

(QRZ.COM)

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