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   From: ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message , Jerry Stuckle   
    writes   
   >On 8/6/2016 11:06 AM, Phi wrote:   
   >>   
   >> "Ian Jackson"  wrote in message   
   >> news:eC9fyDBDofpXFwca@g3ohx.demon.co.uk...   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
   >>>   
   >>> 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!   
   >   
   The do (or did) that in Belgium. The result is/was rather bizarre -   
   brand new shiny cars driving around with tatty old battered number   
   plates.   
   --   
   Ian   
      
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