XPost: rec.radio.amateur.policy, uk.radio.amateur
From: jstucklex@attglobal.net
On 8/6/2016 11:06 AM, Phi wrote:
>
> "Ian Jackson" wrote in message
> news:eC9fyDBDofpXFwca@g3ohx.demon.co.uk...
>> In message , Rob
>> writes
>>> Ian Jackson wrote:
>>>> But in this case, it looks like OFCOM have simply started re-using any
>>>> available callsign that has lapsed or is otherwise no longer current -
>>>> apparently without any consultation with the RSGB (who I hope would
>>>> have
>>>> vigorously opposed it).
>>>
>>> Here in the Netherlands, the callsigns were originally issued in some
>>> series, first PA0 then PA2 and PE0 then PA3 PE1 and PD0, later also PB0.
>>> The latter 4 were assigned sequentially from AAA up, from 1976.
>>>
>>> Later, the associations asked for "vanity" callsigns, and it became
>>> possible to apply for any available callsigns in the PA-PH series,
>>> with digit 0-5 or 7-9 a 1 to 3 letter suffix, but curiously not from
>>> the PA0 series. The digit 6 was and is reserved for temporary
>>> callsigns.
>>>
>>> Of course there was inequality in that a new amateur could not get a
>>> PA0 callsign but those who had one could keep it, and there was also
>>> the issue that one could get a callsign from the series that earlier
>>> were used sequentially, e.g. when the previous user of that callsign
>>> changed to a shorter or more mnemonic callsign.
>>>
>>> It is confusing, because you sometimes hear callsigns that were
>>> previously
>>> used by someone else.
>>>
>>> The current proposal by the associations (not yet implemented) is to
>>> lock
>>> callsigns to persons, so it will only be possible to obtain a callsign
>>> that has not been used by someone else before.
>>
>> Many old fogies (like me) feel that your callsign is as personal as
>> (say) your fingerprints, and you should not be able to acquire
>> amateur's callsign except in exceptional circumstances (such as from a
>> father or an uncle) - but not for reasons like a possibly justifiable
>> "He taught me all I know" or a less-justifiable "I used to take his
>> dog for a walk"). Despite this being the policy of OFCOM and their
>> predecessors, over the years a few old callsigns do seem to have been
>> re-issued.
>>
>> Obviously, an all-time policy of never re-issuing would result in
>> callsigns running out, and a compromise would be to at least wait
>> until the generations of amateurs associated with the various
>> 'generations' of callsigns were and truly dead, and the person to whom
>> a callsign was re-issued could no longer be confused with its previous
>> owner.
>> --
>> Ian
>
>
> Would you have liked to have been assigned a dedicated car number plate
> that you transfer to different vehicles.
We already do that here in Maryland! Trade cars, keep your old plates!
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