More QSLs for my collection of QSL cards from stations whose call signs spell words. This installment includes a funny story from Eric, N0YET.
Eric writes:
I was first licensed back in 1993. The FCC was issuing sequential callsigns, just like now, but there were NO vanity callsigns. This was also before VEs could simply input test results online, so I waited 13 weeks after passing the Tech exam to get my ticket. I kept waiting and waiting.
I was living at home with mom and dad at the time. I was working a job, but since my truck was in the shop, my dad would take me to work and pick me up every day. Every day, my Elmer, who worked where I did, would ask, “Get your ticket yet?” I’d always have to say, “No, it hasn’t arrived yet.”
When my dad would pick me up from work, he’d have the mail with him, and I’d ask if the envelope from the FCC had arrived. He’d say, “Nope. Hasn’t arrived yet.”
After weeks of this, one day he picked me up and said, “Here, this is for you.” It was my ticket!! I opened it up and said, “Hmmmm. Those are funny letters.”
My dad looked at it and said, “Well, I can remember that. You’ve been asking me every day if your license is here, and every day I would say ‘NOT YET.’ Now that it’s here, I can’t say ‘not yet’ anymore.”
After weeks of saying, “not yet, not yet,” my call turned out to N0YET.
No funny story from Mauro, HC2IMP, but I love the colorful QSL card.
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