XPost: uk.radio.amateur   
   From: Aero.Spike@mail.invalid   
      
   On 07/08/2016 11:29, Ian Jackson wrote:   
   > 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?   
      
   Because, dear boy, with all the country prefixes  the UK has available,   
   together with regional identifiers and serial numbers, there's far more   
   callsigns available than are ever likely to be used even on a   
   single-issue basis - that's what the usual dimwit callsign enviers want   
   to ignore in their stampede to appear equal.   
      
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   Spike   
      
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