XPost: uk.radio.amateur   
   From: james.stewart497@ntlworld.com   
      
   "Ian Jackson"  wrote in message   
   news:yd9k1LCA2wpXFwoz@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?   
      
      
   as I said bloody admin jockeys with no knowledge of ham radio ...   
      
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