XPost: uk.radio.amateur   
   From: no.sp@m.com   
      
   On 06/08/2016 22:36, Ian Jackson wrote:   
   > 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.]   
      
      
   Your last comment is interesting. In the case where someone got an 'old'   
   callsign due to the system allowing it sometime back, I thought he was   
   forced to give it up.   
      
   I don't have strong views either way, it doesn't impact me so why should   
   I, but the solution you describe would seem fair. The only potential   
   problem is a prior own decides he wants 'his' callsign back.   
      
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