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From: ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.demon.co.uk
In message , mm0fmf
writes
>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 available callsign that has lapsed or is otherwise no longer current -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.
You know, I do believe I already understood that.
They have (hopefully only accidentally) re-issued, to new licensees,
callsigns that had been issued previously - but which had been expired
for at least two years.
They go on to say that if you have been issued one of these recycled
callsigns - and don't like having a recycled callsign - you can ask for
it to be replaced by a brand spanking new one. [There seems to be no
intention of making you give up the recycled callsign.]
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Ian
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