AMATEUR RADIO VANITY CALLSIGNS
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ABOUT THE PROGRAM:
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The FCC offers amateur licensees the opportunity to request a specific
call sign for a primary station and for a club station. A call sign is
selected by the FCC from a list of call signs requested by the licensee
or license trustee. Military recreation stations are not eligible for a
vanity call sign.

WHAT IS A VANITY CALLSIGN?
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A Vanity call sign is a special Amateur Radio call sign specifically
chosen by a person or club who is currently an Amateur Radio licensee
(similar in purpose to Vanity license plates on cars). Vanity call signs usually include alphabetical characters of personal significance (e.g., licensees initials, parts of names, hobbies, etc), or sometimes are
simply chosen because they are shorter calls, or sometimes they have
double or triple duplicate characters (e.g., W1WWW).

A Vanity call sign is a call sign that the licensee wants assigned by the
FCC for use in place of an existing call sign (or for an Amateur Radio
club, it is a call sign assigned to replace the existing FCC-assigned
club license call sign).


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