XPost: uk.radio.amateur   
   From: james.stewart497@ntlworld.com   
      
   "Ian Jackson"  wrote in message   
   news:XPvNRvAI6ipXFwNd@g3ohx.demon.co.uk...   
   > In message , mm0fmf  writes   
   >>On 06/08/2016 16:51, Ian Jackson wrote:   
   >>> In message , Stephen Thomas Cole   
   >>>  writes   
   >>>> Ian Jackson  wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> But in this case, it looks like OFCOM have simply started re-using any   
   >>>>> available callsign that has lapsed or is otherwise no longer current -   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Excellent news! I've just put in my application for G3OHX once that   
   >>>> one's   
   >>>> freed up.   
   >>>>   
   >>> To make sure you get it, I'll add a codicil to my will.   
   >>   
   >>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.   
   >   
   > Class-Bs, FLs, ILs and Fulls should know their place!   
   >   
   >> Then you can decide if someone is an idiot on how they act not on when   
   >> they were licenced.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   but all those class B m3s should have had here old callsigns revoked .....   
      
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