W1SEG

Amateur Radio Station

The history of call sign W1SEG

I’m not the only amateur radio operator to be licensed as W1SEG.

Arthur J. Buttero

Arthur J. Buttero W1SEG, early 1950s. Image courtesy of the Buttero family.

W1SEG was first issued in early 1950 as part of the normal sequential call sign system. The recipient was Arthur J. Buttero, still a teenager, an electrical engineering student at University of Connecticut. This photo shows him in his shack in Hartford, Connecticut. He used this image for his QSL card.

Arthur was an active ham; in 1967 he got his Advanced ticket, and by 1971 he was Amateur Extra. He lived in region 1 for years operating as W1SEG. His daughter remembers:

My Dad built his first radio and it just went on from there. He was a young teen when he got those call letters. I grew up listening to him on the radio with those call letters every evening.

I will tell you when it came to ham radio and electronics in general we always had the latest. At one point we had an actual teletype that went off at all hours. So noisy. It was in my parents bedroom at the time. My poor Mom…

In 1974 the Buttero family moved to Philadelphia, region 3, and Arthur was assigned new call sign W3HFH. A few years later in 1976 he moved to Michigan and was assigned W8LPI.

By 1982 Arthur had moved back east to New York. However FCC rules had changed, and he was allowed to keep his existing call sign. Despite living in region 2, he remained active as W8LPI.

Arthur eventually returned to his home state of Connecticut. As former primary station holder, he applied through the vanity call sign program and in 1996 was granted his original call sign W1SEG.

Arthur J. Buttero became Silent Key on 17 October 1997, the day before his 67th birthday. For more about his very full and interesting life, read his obituary here.

Ernest C. Maroun

Ernest C. Maroun was born in Mount Lebanon, Syria, in 1915. He emigrated to the United States in 1925, and lived in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

In 1974 he earned his Novice license and was issued call sign WN1SEG. Typically when a Novice upgrades to General, the N is removed from their call sign, so Ernest was in line to be the next W1SEG. He was Novice for two years, however it appears he never earned his General ticket and was never licensed as W1SEG.

He passed away in Lawrence, Massachusetts in May 2003.

73
Steve
W1SEG

W1SEG Amateur Radio Station

The history of call sign W1SEG

I’m not the only amateur radio operator to be licensed as W1SEG.

Arthur J. Buttero

Arthur J. Buttero W1SEG, early 1950s. Image courtesy of the Buttero family.

W1SEG was first issued in early 1950 as part of the normal sequential call sign system. The recipient was Arthur J. Buttero, still a teenager, an electrical engineering student at University of Connecticut. This photo shows him in his shack in Hartford, Connecticut. He used this image for his QSL card.

Arthur was an active ham; in 1967 he got his Advanced ticket, and by 1971 he was Amateur Extra. He lived in region 1 for years operating as W1SEG. His daughter remembers:

My Dad built his first radio and it just went on from there. He was a young teen when he got those call letters. I grew up listening to him on the radio with those call letters every evening.

I will tell you when it came to ham radio and electronics in general we always had the latest. At one point we had an actual teletype that went off at all hours. So noisy. It was in my parents bedroom at the time. My poor Mom…

In 1974 the Buttero family moved to Philadelphia, region 3, and Arthur was assigned new call sign W3HFH. A few years later in 1976 he moved to Michigan and was assigned W8LPI.

By 1982 Arthur had moved back east to New York. However FCC rules had changed, and he was allowed to keep his existing call sign. Despite living in region 2, he remained active as W8LPI.

Arthur eventually returned to his home state of Connecticut. As former primary station holder, he applied through the vanity call sign program and in 1996 was granted his original call sign W1SEG.

Arthur J. Buttero became Silent Key on 17 October 1997, the day before his 67th birthday. For more about his very full and interesting life, read his obituary here.

Ernest C. Maroun

Ernest C. Maroun was born in Mount Lebanon, Syria, in 1915. He emigrated to the United States in 1925, and lived in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

In 1974 he earned his Novice license and was issued call sign WN1SEG. Typically when a Novice upgrades to General, the N is removed from their call sign, so Ernest was in line to be the next W1SEG. He was Novice for two years, however it appears he never earned his General ticket and was never licensed as W1SEG.

He passed away in Lawrence, Massachusetts in May 2003.

73
Steve
W1SEG