Leo Laporte, KJ6QGP (W6TWT)

Leo Laporte of TWiT and The Screen Savers fame is now KJ6QGP.

Leo's already embraced ham radio by partering with Bob Heil of Heil Sound who's doing a weekly podcast and starting up a ham radio social network.

So does this mean he'll be showing up at Dayton in the near future?

UPDATE: He has applied for and will be granted W6TWT

Lauren's got a new callsign

Well less than 2 months after my daughter Lauren passed her ham test, she decided that KJ4QNH was not for her. Something about the letter "Q" she didn't care for.

So we applied for and got her a new callsign through the Vanity system.

She is now K4LRN. The suffix "LRN" is short for her name, something she liked when we looked at what callsigns were available.

I checked late Thursday evening and it was still pending, so either yesterday or today it went through.

Merry Christmas, Lauren!

EDIT: The expiration is on Christmas Day of 2019, so it did come into effect on Christmas Day.