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K4BDA

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How to date when license was originally issued?
« on: December 15, 2022, 01:24:53 PM »

My license was issued a long time ago and I'll be darn'd  if I can remember the exact date.
Is there anyway to lookup online when I first got my ticket?
Thank you,
K4BDA
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K1KP

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Re: How to date when license was originally issued?
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2022, 01:27:47 PM »

If it's been more than 25 years you can contact the QCWA folks.  I think they have a collection of old callbooks and can tell you within an issue of the callbook when your call first appears.

-Tony, K1KP
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KB1NO

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Re: How to date when license was originally issued?
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2022, 02:05:17 PM »

Send a note to Pete, NL7XM, who is a director of QCWA.   He keeps the massive collection of Callbooks as Tony noted. 
His email is TwelveVDC@aol.com.  I'm not sure you need to have been licensed for any specific time.   Pete's a really nice fellow.

73,
John, KB1NO
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W6BP

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Re: How to date when license was originally issued?
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2022, 03:37:45 PM »

If you have even a rough idea, you can search through the archive.org callbook selection; they've got lots of them.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=radio+amateur+callbook&sin=
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K4BDA

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Re: How to date when license was originally issued?
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2022, 04:34:16 PM »

Thanks guys. I see my novice call listed in the 1959 call book...
So I think I must have gotten my novice license sometimes in 1958, the year before the book came out.

I would have been 15 or 16 then, depending on exactly when the license was issued.

Great lifetime hobby!
Will, K4BDA

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WB8PFZ

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Re: How to date when license was originally issued?
« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2022, 12:44:02 PM »

I luckily saved all my paper licenses. A novice back in 73 a day before my birthday. And yes to the life time hobby. Mike
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K0UA

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Re: How to date when license was originally issued?
« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2022, 04:04:38 PM »

Novice in August 1971... Current Call in March 1975
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73  James K0UA
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