Today’s Run:  Rest Day

Two days ago, I told you how my husband and I had been granted approval to own and operate a Low-Powered FM radio station.  This radio station was to be utilized by our Non-Profit Organization, Classic Book Radio Corporation.

Our next step, now that we had gained the FCC’s approval was to decide on a call sign for the radio station.  Seeing as both my husband and myself are Amateur Radio operators (ham radio people) we are no slouches when it comes to figuring out a vanity call sign.

My husband got his vanity call sign when we lived in Estes Park, Colorado.  His call sign is w0ep.  The “W” means it is a vanity sign, the 0 (zero) shows it is a call sign from Colorado, and the EP just happened to be the initials for the town in which we lived:  Estes Park.  Nice!

My call sign is W5MSH.  The “W” again showing it is a vanity call sign.  The 5 shows that it is from Mississippi and the MSH those are my initials!  Tidy.  Easy to remember.

Now, we get to pick out a call sign for our radio station.  We looked at WRTM (“W”, Read To Me), WRTY (“W” Read To You)  WRTU (“W” Read To U).  Hmmm…They are all already taken!  Bother.  We can gain permission from these stations to borrow their call sign if we put an LP after the sign.  The LP would show that we are a Low Power station.  Not to be confused with the “mother” station.

I had cracked a joke in that blog post that we should look into WMFH (“W” My Favorite Husband).  Well, guess what.  There are no WMFH stations!  HA!  I think we are going to try to apply for that call sign!!!  HA!  Is not that the funniest thing!?!

My husband is concerned that WMFH may be a bit too personal of a call sign.  I told him I would swear you to secrecy…after you were done laughing, that is!  It is not carved in stone as of yet, but I thought you might get a chuckle out of that.

Broadcasting live from WMFH…Love it!!!