XPost: uk.radio.amateur
From: none@invalid.com
On 07/08/2016 09:11, Stephen Thomas Cole wrote:
> Spike wrote:
>> On 06/08/2016 19:38, Ian Jackson wrote:
>>> , mm0fmf writes
>>>> On 06/08/2016 16:51, Ian Jackson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> Sunshine, it's dead easy to tell whether a callsign holder is the
>> original or not
>>
>>> Class-Bs, FLs, ILs and Fulls should know their place!
>>
>> Just ask yourself, Ian, why it's G3 callsigns that are sought after.
>>
>> No-one wants a recycled M-nothing or G8 call.
>>
>>>> Then you can decide if someone is an idiot on how they act not on when
>>>> they were licenced.
>>
>> See above. Hiding under a recycled call doesn't help.
>>
>> Of course, if you're as dim as a modern emmnothing, as demonstrated
>> daily on this group, that'll show as soon as you open your gob, no
>> matter what call is being used - except, of course, if they are as dim
>> as you. I blame the dim-witted concept and execution of the new
>> licensing scheme for bringing in, well, the dimwits.
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Callsign envy is like career envy - deep-seated and corrosive. I wonder
>> if the FBI link it to early failures in life?
>>
>>
>
> I'm really starting to enjoy these occasional unhinged rants from good ol'
> Burt. What with Big G being runned off, the group needs a kook to fill the
> void. Cheers, bro!
>
We should ask Spike to tell us how an antenna knows whether to radiate a
ground wave or space wave again?
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