K6SBR

Where K6SBR has lived

Five addresses, two states, one call sign, 1959 to today.

A U.S. amateur call sign carries the number of the district where it was first issued, and it goes wherever its holder goes. K6SBR was born a California 6 call and is now keyed from the Colorado 0 district, eleven hundred miles east.

K6SBR route map 6 0 CALIFORNIA COLORADO Eagle Rock La Crescentalicensed 1959 Rialto San Bernardinorenewed 1989 Grand Junctionregranted 2023 about 1,100 miles
Eagle Rock, CaliforniaA Los Angeles neighborhood beside Glendale. Theron and Ernestine's daughters Sharon and Karon were born here.
La Crescenta, CaliforniaA few miles up the hill in the Crescenta Valley. K6SBR first issued here in 1959, when Theron was 42.
Rialto, CaliforniaEast along the San Bernardino Valley, where the family moved later.
San Bernardino, CaliforniaThe address on the December 1989 renewal. Theron died here in June 1990; the FCC cancelled the call in 2002.
Grand Junction, ColoradoThe call's home since April 2023, when Cody received it as a vanity call. Grid DM58.

Why a Colorado station keeps a 6

The FCC divides the country into ten call districts. California is 6; Colorado, with the rest of the mountain and plains states from the Dakotas down to Kansas, is 0. The digit records where a call was first issued, nothing more. Operators are not required to change call signs when they move, and under the vanity system an operator may request a call from any district. So a 6 in Grand Junction is not a mistake. It is a California call that followed a family east.

The details of the two licenses, the 1990 death and the 2002 cancellation are on the history page. If you have a relative's old call sign in mind, the reclaim a family call sign guide walks through how Cody did it.