XPost: uk.radio.amateur   
   From: usenet@stephenthomascole.com   
      
   mm0fmf  wrote:   
   > 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?   
   >   
      
   He'll just tell us it's all in the radials, again.   
      
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