'1940's CallBook Data

[KB2WIG]

I'm trying to find out the call of a pased friend of mine. Anyone have access to a early-mid 40's callbook willing to spend the time looking??  klc

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

I have a bunch of these somewhere, but they are boxed up and may already be in storage. WZ1M also had a few older ones, perhaps he can help?

A year or specific years would help narrow it down. 40-43? 44?

[KB2WIG]

T,
 Thanks fer the info... I don't know when he was licensed; probably 1940. I THINK he was in the 8th call district before NY became all "2". His license lasped in the early 1960's. Too much work limited his operating time, and back then you lost the license if you coulden't log 'nuf hrs.  his name was  "Franklin Frysler Bradley" ...............  klc

[Vortex Joe - N3IBX]

I'll check as well and see if I can find out anything.

[W1UJR]

T,
 Thanks fer the info... I don't know when he was licensed; probably 1940. I THINK he was in the 8th call district before NY became all "2". His license lasped in the early 1960's. Too much work limited his operating time, and back then you lost the license if you coulden't log 'nuf hrs.  his name was  "Franklin Frysler Bradley" ...............  klc

Did you mean: Franklin Freisler Bradley?

[KB2WIG]

!! duah !!     Just when ya think ya kneu how to spell.... ..

"Chrysler" was the name.......  thanks....  klc

[k4kyv]

Too much work limited his operating time, and back then you lost the license if you coulden't log 'nuf hrs.  his name was  "Franklin Frysler Bradley" ...............  klc

He was honest about it.  Back then, most people simply signed the statement attesting that they had put in the required operating time, even if they hadn't turned a rig on in years.  I knew one old timer who had been licensed since 1917, who had been totally inactive since Pearl Harbor, but he renewed every five years.  I never heard of the FCC actually checking someone's logbook to verify operating.  IIRC, it operated on the "honour system".  I'm sure many hams fudged it.