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Post by mm0fmfPost by Ian JacksonPost by mm0fmfPost by Brian MorrisonOn Sat, 27 Jul 2024 10:00:07 +0100
Post by Jim GM4DHJ ...Post by Brian MorrisonOn Fri, 26 Jul 2024 21:09:45 +0100
Post by Ian JacksonAren't the ILs going to be allowed to convert their weird 2x
callsigns into M8s and M9s, which at least sort-of resemble
something from the UK?
Yes, once Ofcom have updated their licensing platform software to
allow this.
wish they would hurry up and take away all those multiple callsigns
people hold
I think that is being done as they work through the licences with the
updated conditions being sent out by whatever means is being used.
Nope. I've still got all of mine (2x full, 2x club) and have been
emailed by the nice people at Ofcom about the new conditions.
Don't you have to be a 'really very special person' to hold more than
one personal callsign of the same class?
There are plenty of people who hold both their B and their later A
calls. At one time Ofcom were happy to extract money from people to
allow them resurrect their B calls in addition to their A. Plenty of
people use the different calls for purposes where they wanted to split
activities across their calls. e.g. use the A for HF activities and the
B for contesting, that kind of thing.
AIUI, no one was ever supposed to have more than one callsign of the
same class (well, at least not after OFCOM realised that some people
WERE doing what you say, and acquiring a collection of them). Probably
most only had two, and by accident - their original Class-B (which they
kept), and later a new Class-A or Full. A decision about which one to
keep should have been made when the Class-B was also made a Full.
Post by mm0fmfNow finally Ofcom are going to get rid of multiple personal calls of
the same level.
I have to admit that I'm not quite sure what the latest ruling is. Are
we now supposed to have only one personal callsign (of any kind)?
Post by mm0fmfIt doesn't bother me TBH... I'll just log in and relinquish one of
them and that's that. It will go into the pool and one day will be
reallocated. Just like yours will be a couple of years after you
shuffle off your mortal coil and join the choir invisible. Hopefully a
good few years away.
I'll drink to that!
Post by mm0fmfMaybe by that time the kudos of having a G3 will be completely
dissipated. As it stands many of the new full licence holders I've met
in the last 2-3 years are G3, G4 or G5 call holders instead of M0's. So
it's starting to get difficult to know if that G4D?? call is 50 years
old or 50 minutes :-)
At least they don't seem to have decided to grave-rob the G3s (and the
other old Class-As), and re-issue their callsigns to Foundations!
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Ian
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