[UK-CONTEST] SHORT CONTEST CALLS

[Colin]

Dez,

I think you will find that Ofcom are having one of their periodic 
rethinks about the multi callsign situation and that with the exception 
of contest calls it maybe a policy of one call per person.   The 
existing system distorts the statistics and Ofcom do not actually know 
how many licensees there are out there.

Yes the Home Office does use the M2 prefix and all the MP, WB, XW 
callsigns heard should be prefixed with this, however I am not aware of 
the M4 prefix being used.

Mind you I still remember M2GWX which used to be the Interpol callsign 
of Scotland Yard and was regularly heard on 80m.

73

Colin, G3PSM

Dez Watson wrote:
> Clive,
>
> The reissuing of SK calls is allowed, in fact last year Ofcom relaxed 
> their policy on reissuing of callsigns,
> details below:
>
> http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radiocomms/ifi/licensing/classes/amateur/information/transfercallsigns.pdf
>
> Furthermore, it may be possible to retain your existing callsign.
>
> In the old days, when we paid for our licence(s) I continued to keep my 
> old Class 'B' G8 licence
> active, in addition to a G0.
>
> Some years later, when Ofcom introduced the no-fee licence,  I  
> relinquished the old G8 for G3WW,
> (it was a painless procedure) I still retained the G0. This was made all 
> the more simpler after the former
> Class B licences became Full licences.
>
> I would suggest anyone wishing to retain their G0/G3/G4 etc... _and_ 
> have a contest/vanity callsign should
> first of all eqnuire about getting their old Class B reissued to themselves.
>
> As for short calls in the Mxxx series, I believe the Home Office may 
> already be assigned a significant number in this block, e.g
> M2KR, M4BR
>
> Perhaps it is best to lobby Ofcom for vanity calls the G0xx, G1xx, G7xx, 
> G9xx blocks first of all.
>
> 73
>
> Dez
>
>
>
> Clive Whelan wrote:
>   
>> <snip for brevity>
>>     
>
>   
>> Clearly I could never have GW3NJ unless reissue of SK calls is allowed ( 
>> although I suspect Gx3NJ was in fact never issued?), but equally clearly 
>> Gx0xx, Gx1xx,Gx7xx, Gx9xx and their M and 2 equivalents are available.
>>
>>     
> <snip>
>
>
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