Advancing Ham Radio.. different ideas: Research an Old License or Callsign. Post #557.
Advancing Ham Radio.. different ideas: Research an Old License or Callsign : Advancing Ham Radio.. different ideas. Experimentation seems lost in the hobby. This is my attempt to spread some new ideas and help enable those who want to explore something new.. Saturday, October 3, 2015. Research an Old License or Callsign. Source: http://kb9mwr.blogspot.com/2015/10/research-old-license-or-callsign.html. Recently my local ham club celebrated its 75th anniversary. I took up a small project of trying to trace some of the clubs history. A large portion of that entailed looking up old callsigns, to help piece things together. QRZ 's notes give the history of FCC records and the dilemma. Basically they didn't start to use computers for keeping records till the 1980's. Prior everything was kept on paper. The only publicly searchable database is the 1993 one that QRZ has. Hamcall.net has obviously been transscribing old flying horse callbooks. They have a resonably priced