Post by brianwrites
Post by mm0fmfPost by Ottavio CarusoPost by Roger Hayterthey are going to applying some checks to
licensees. I have no idea what, apart from cancelling multiple callsigns per
person.
Urgh! I have three callsigns. I don't mind sacrificing two of them,
but, are they going to ask to that ourselves, or will they do that
regardless?
Only reason why I didn't surrender them is because, at least
hypothetically, I could use two of them for beacons.
I've only just seen this but you have links to the info you need now.
Only 3 calls? Noob!
The easy thing for them to do is to cancel all the lower licence
levels, i.e. you have a Full, Intermediate and Foundation so they will
automatically cancel the Foundation and Intermediate ones. Where
people have more of the same type, I have what was my B and my A when
I passed the Morse Test, then who knows what they'll actually do.
Probably we'll be invited to go and delete the ones we don't want so
we only have the single licence we do want. If we don't clean up,
Ofcom will do it for us and you'll be left with what they pick.
It will be sad to see my old B go as I've had it 33.5 years.
I had to send back old GM8 licence in 1974. I don't think there was an
option to keep it then .There was something in the licence document
about revoking previous licences . Hazy memory.
Brian GM4DIJ
I think it was in the short period when licensing fell under the
auspices of the Home Office that ALL amateur licences were revoked, and
we were supposed to surrender the physical (paper) document. At the same
time, we were issued with NEW licences.
While my callsign notionally remained the same (I expect that it was the
same for everyone), the licence said that it was G3OHX/M (personably
because I also held a mobile licence, which at one time was additional
to the fixed station licence).
I guess the intention was to remove Class B callsigns that were in
circulation but had been superseded by the owner subsequently taking the
morse test and getting a new Class A call. [This was, of course, long
before the morse requirement was done away with, and we both became
Fulls.]
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Ian
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