Dick wrote: "This still does not explain why the original (actual) filing date was not used." I don't remember: is the revised filing date before or after the filing date of the NCVEC look-alike petition? If it's after, then .... Could be paranoia because I haven't had any coffee yet this morning, but what if it's to make it seem like the NCVEC petition, which was very similar to ours, was filed "first"? Thus they could claim our ideas were a variation on theirs and not the other way around? Call it a stretch, but remember that W5YI tried to hijack the credit for the revival of vanity callsigns away from the ARRL, who did all the work, in favor of some individual ham who was said to have written some letters "first"? To the day his pink sheet ceased publication, he never said the truth about that to his subscribers. And remember that the NCVEC has historically been the FCC's pet puppy-dogs. Okay, okay, I'm going to go make coffee. 73 - Kay N3KN