About HamCall

The HamCall database has been available in several different forms over the years. It all began in 1982, when HamCall was first published in soft cover book form (US only) with 1,027 8.5x11, pages. It sold for $12.95. The hardcopy continued in 1983 and in 1984 we produced a callsign directory for the ARRL.

In 1982 we also produced the first Name Index (sequenced by last name) and also the Geographical Index (sorted by State & City). These additional volumes were over 500 pages each. They sold for $25.00.These were updated and printed again in 1985.

HamCall Timeline:

• 1982 - Buckmaster "Amateur Radio Call Directory" books first published (Callsign, Name, Geographical)
• 1985 - Call Directory published on standard 98 frame, 24x microfiche
• 1989 - First HamCall CD-ROM published, selling for $50 (same price as today)
• 1992 - International callsigns added to the HamCall CD-ROM
• 1994 - World Wide HamCall™ Callsign Server debuts on the Internet
• 2001 - HamCall becomes the first (and still the only) callsign CD-ROM to offer update files over the Internet
• 2002 - HamCall 20th anniversary
• 2003 - HamCall offers Internet-only callsign lookup subscriptions
• 2004 - HamCall on the Internet 10th anniversary (22 years total)
• 2005 - HamCall database is now 1,800,000 callsigns!
• 2008 - HamCall database is now 1,900,000 callsigns!
• 2009 - HamCall database has now reached the 2,000,000 callsigns milestone!
• 2012 - First released on DVD, September 2012 (we needed the extra storage.)

Contact Us

Postal mail:
HamCall
6196 Jefferson Hwy.
Mineral, VA 23117
USA

Phone:
800:282-5628
540:894-5777
540:894-9141 (fax)

Internet:
Web site: http://hamcall.net
Email: info@buck.com

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