XPost: uk.radio.amateur   
   From: ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message , Spike   
    writes   
   >On 07/08/2016 09:59, Ian Jackson wrote:   
   >   
   >> I don't know how long the present Ms and 2x series will last  - but   
   >> there are many other weird UK prefixes that could be use as well.   
   >> [Unfortunately, to me the UK is 'G-Land', and even the M and 2x prefix   
   >> seems distinctly odd!] However, it's obviously untidy to have a database   
   >> sparsely populated with old allocated callsigns - and full of empty   
   >> holes and even areas of total wasteland. It's only natural for someone   
   >> to wonder why no-longer-allocated callsigns cannot be re-issued.   
   >   
   >That sounds rather anal, Ian, more like something to be expected from   
   >the usual emnothing/emthree dimwits.   
      
   Nah. On the face of it, it's essentially just good housekeeping -   
   something that someone who has no knowledge of amateur radio and its   
   history would instinctively try to implement. Why search for new   
   callsigns when you've got an increasingly-full wastebin of old ones just   
   waiting to be recycled?   
   >   
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   Ian   
      
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