Follow Up:
In January this year, when we tried reserving the call sign W5W for WFD 2025, we found the organizers website http://www.1x1callsigns.org/ only ran years out to 2024. We wrote and asked them to reserve the call sign for us and advised of the problem with their website. Zero feedback from anyone was the result.
Today, over a month later with no reply and no reservation, I wrote a harsh email to the ARRL VEC telling them to get it fixed and to get our reservation done. I copied the world, including all the other VECs that use that site to reserve 1×1 calls and got a very nice reply from Allan Batteiger (WB5QNG) with W5YI-VEC in Plano. They are one of the organizations that I copied. He explained that when I originally wrote and highlighted the problem they tried to fix it, but the website was designed by some long-gone outfit and no matter what they tried they could not get it resolved. The whole site will have to be rewritten. None of that explains why nobody could bother to reply to my January email and/or get us manually reserved, but I do appreciate the explanation. And Allan did get us manually registered:
Nutty stuff… I was trying to reserve it for the Club (WB5RDD), but they did it with my call. I have followed up and will see if they can modify it. I made several suggestions for how to improve their site and do not know if they will be implemented or not, but we now have what we need. Hopefully when it is time to register for Summer Field Day 2025 they will have it fixed. If not, I at least now have a resource that can do it for us manually.
Phillip