goflo@cox.net wrote: > ---- Russell McMahon wrote: >> Nicely timed to coincide (incidentally no doubt) with the 60th anniversary >> of the Roswell incident, one of the original military participants has left >> a deathbed message saying that it was all in fact true - there really was a >> craft and bodies and TWO crash sites and more. > > Guess we'll never know - Art Bell has retired. Again. Something else for the conspiracy theorists... The FCC refused a request by a New Mexico ham radio club to gain the club callsign NM0UFO recently. :-) ----------- RADIO LAW: FCC DENIES UFO CALLSIGN The FCC has denied a request that the call sign NM5UFO be assigned to the New Mexico's Saucer Ridge Amateur Radio Association. In filing its request the club had maintained that the assignment of NM5UFO would be in keeping with the theme that Roswell, New Mexico which has been known since 1947 as the site of a UFO crash. In denying the request the FCC simply said that the requested call did not follow the agency's sequential callsign assignment system. (HandiHam News) ----------- So-called "vanity" callsigns have never been required to be issued in any particular order... or I wouldn't have mine. But there is a requirement that all 2X3 vanities start (right now anyway) with K or W, the "traditional" US prefixes. The newer "A" or "N" prefixes aren't allowed for various types of vanity calls. Sorry conspiracy guys! (GRIN) But NM0UFO would have been nifty for that club! Nate Duehr, WY0X -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist