[UK-CONTEST] RSGB-Ofcom September meeting

[Chris G3SJJ]

Well done Don and Colin. A good interim solution. These kind of things 
don't move as fast as many would like, but certainly a lot faster and 
more progressive than they used to 10 to 20 years ago!  Chris G3SJJ


don.field at gmail.com wrote:
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 of work for ourselves, but it might mean having 
entered "x" contests in the past 12 months, or some such. 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.