Silliest reason to get an Amateur Extra license?
My grandfather was a ham. He never really talked about it with me; I found it independently a few years after he passed. I remember he got a twin-paddle key for Christmas one year, he’d listen to morse code tapes in the car, and he talked about his antenna tower once or twice.
I recently decided to look up what his callsign was. Come to find out he had a 2x2 vanity callsign, which is pretty cool! And it turns out that I can request his call sign! I thought that would be nice.
…turns out I need an Amateur Extra license to get that callsign. I haven’t gotten around to scheduling my General exam yet. I currently have no desire to utilize the Extra bands, nor do I really want to be a VE. I would only be getting that license to get that callsign.
I think I’m gonna do it. I took an Amateur Extra practice test blind and got 50% so I’m halfway there already!