XPost: uk.radio.amateur   
   From: none@invalid.com   
      
   On 06/08/2016 19:38, Ian Jackson wrote:   
   > In message , mm0fmf  writes   
   >> On 06/08/2016 16:51, Ian Jackson wrote:   
   >>> In message , Stephen Thomas Cole   
   >>>  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 available callsign that has lapsed or is otherwise no longer current -   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Excellent news! I've just put in my application for G3OHX once that   
   >>>> one's   
   >>>> freed up.   
   >>>>   
   >>> To make sure you get it, I'll add a codicil to my will.   
   >>   
   >> I'm strongly in favour of recycling calls. Kills all the call sign   
   >> snobbery dead when you don't know if a G3 is original or new.   
   >   
   > Class-Bs, FLs, ILs and Fulls should know their place!   
   >   
   >> Then you can decide if someone is an idiot on how they act not on when   
   >> they were licenced.   
   >   
   > Actually, I've never been a callsign snob - but using an old-timer's   
   > recycled callsign seems a strange thing to do - especially if you've got   
   > a perfectly good one of your own.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   If I didn't know you were trolling, I'd think you were quite clueless!   
   Where not talking about reissuing calls to people who have them but   
   issuing them to people who have just passed their test.   
      
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