[UK-CONTEST] RSGB-Ofcom September meeting

Fri Oct 24 16:00:34 EDT 2008

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><title></title><head><meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><style type="text/css"> html, body {overflow-x: hidden; } html { width:100%; height:100%;margin:0px; padding:0px; overflow-y: auto; overflow-x: hidden; }body { font-size: 100.01%; font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color:transparent; overflow:show; background-image:none; margin:0px; padding:5px; }p { margin:0px; padding:0px; } body { font-size: 12px; font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } p { margin: 0; padding: 0; } blockquote { padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; } blockquote.quote { border-left: 1px solid #CCC; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; } .misspelled { background: transparent url(//images.gmx.net/images/outsource/application/mailclient/com/us/resource_2.3.1.2/mailclient/widgets/basic/parts/maileditor/spellchecking_underline.gif) repeat-x scroll center bottom; } .correct {} .unknown {} .ignored {}</style></head><body id="bodyElement" style="">Clive Colin, G3PSM, may well respond, as he attended the meeting, but I understand that vanity calls are still a no-no. Not sure why - a resourcing issue at OFCOM perhaps? But as this is a contest reflector, you may be more interested in the fact that OFCOM are now prepared to issue Special Contest Calls to individuals as well as clubs. But to avoid a rush to get vanity calls by the back door, so to speak, they want the requests to be vetted to ensure that they are for bona fide use by contesters. It looks as though we (the Contest Committee) will need to work up some proposals as to what this might mean - we don't want to make a huge amount fo work for ourselves, but it might mean having entered "x" contests in the past 12 months, or somesuch. The use of the calls will almost certainly be as for the current SCCs - an application on a similar form to the SCC, after which OFCOM will do a quick check with us as to bona fides, then issued for use in contests that are on the list (which can, if necessary, always be revisited and revised). We will try to move this along as quickly as we can. Don Field G3XTT <blockquote class="quote" style="font-size: 12px;" face="Verdana" type="cite">----- Original Message ----- From: Clive Whelan Sent: 10/24/08 10:56 am To: uk-contest at contesting.com Subject: [UK-CONTEST] RSGB-Ofcom September meeting <div style="">Hi list Has anyone heard how the above meeting went, with particular reference to the vanity calls issue, which I understand was scheduled for specific consideration. 73 Clive GW3NJW _______________________________________________ UK-Contest mailing list UK-Contest at contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/uk-contest </div></blockquote> </body></html>