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by W5LVB on September 25, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Can anyone give me a ACCURATE time frame on when the call W5LVB would have INITIALLY been issued? I believe it was somewhere between 1940 and 1945. I have TONS of copies of my dad's old FCC General and First Class Radiotelephone Licenses, but nothing of an Amateur License until much later. Any help would be MUCH appreciated. 73, de W5LVB

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by N2EY on September 25, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Well, that all depends on how you define "accurate"... This much is known for sure: There were no amateur callsigns issued in the USA during WW2. The callsign belongs to the station, not the operator, and all amateur station licenses were "suspended for the duration" soon after Pearl Harbor, and new ones were not issued until after VJ Day. So the first question is: Was it issued before or after WW2? One clue is to look in old QSTs and see when similar calls began to appear. btw, FCC conducted amateur radio operator license exams during WW2, and continued to issue operator licenses. But since there were no amateur radio stations licensed, there wasn't much you could do with the operator license. 73 de Jim, N2EY

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by N3DF on September 25, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Jim, I think-from what I read-that an amateur operator license entitled you to operate in the War Emergency Radio Service (WERS), primarily VHF, during the war. Neil N3DF

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by AB4D on September 26, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Check with Steve, W3HF, he has a large collection of callbooks and other call related information. He just assisted me at no cost, to find information for a friend about a call that was issued in 1932. He provides valuable no charge assistance to others when researching prior calls and holders of such calls. http://www.geocities.com/W3HF/ 73 Jim, AB4D

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by W3HF on September 27, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Late 1946. Definitely. FCC was still in the W5K?? callsigns as of the start of the war, and those are all that are listed in the Spring 46 book (the first issued after the war). Summer, Fall, and Winter 46 show the progression of the callsigns into the W5L?? series, but the Winter 46-47 ends near the end of W5LU?. This is obviously only a few calls before LVB, so W5LVB would have been issued only a short time after the press date for the Winter issue. (This was likely in the early fall of 1946.) Spring 47 is the first book that lists W5LVB.

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by W5LVB on September 29, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Steve, THANK YOU!!!!!!! Much appreciated! 73, Bob

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