[UK-CONTEST] G5UM G2AA Short contest calls

[ALEX LISTER]

Possibly slightly off topic but we at Leicester radio Society are always proud to re activate an old call,
   
  "G5UM" Jack Hum particularly as we have used it in contests just a few kms from his old QTH..
  Also Have G2AA again another local who always the 1st Listing in the Old Call Book.
  (A good CW Call)
   
  Its nice to think they are looking down on us from Silent Key land.
   
  Likewise would hope to see a respected call being re issued to anyone who took a fancy to it.
  
Dave Lawley <g4buo at compuserve.com> wrote:
  Jack G6BQ was my 'Elmer' and a major influence on me as a radio ham and 
contester. His record in RSGB topband contests was unequalled. I would 
be very unhappy to see someone acquire that callsign even if he were a 
top contester, but imagine if his/her interest only ran to 
shack-on-a-belt or Echolink....

Dave G4BUO

Alex GM3ZBE wrote:
> 
> To be honest Peter, the only call I recognise there is G5RV.
> I'm not exactly a spring chicken either. So is re-issue after a period
> really a problem?
> Alex
> -----Original Message-----
> From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Peter Hobbs
> Sent: 02 December 2007 14:57
> To: UK Contest reflector
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Short contest calls
> 
> 
>> I would have thought that there was something to said for allowing the 
>> issue of short SK calls after an agreed period of time had elapsed if no 
>> member of the family meantime had requested its use.
>>
>> Frank, GM3JKS
>>
> 
> Now that WOULD be confusing and in my view very poor taste. Imagine hearing
> 
> G2QT, '5RV, '6BQ, '6CL, '6XL and countless others, operated by someone 
> completely unconnected . . .
> 
> 73, Peter G3LET 
> 
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