[UK-CONTEST] Long calls.

[Colin Wilson]

David

No can't be true, my call originally issued in 1966 to my Dad was GM3VCQ but 
on moving to England in the 1970's he was issued with a new licence and his 
call changed to G3VCQ, later he returned to Scotland and again his call and 
licence changed to GM3VCQ. On retiring he moved to Kettering back into 
England and guess what...yep your right his licence and call was updated 
again to a G call. The call must reflect the main address the the station 
and that's why it changes!  Now another example is my own call, originally 
ZB2IP on returning to the UK at the end of the 1980's I applied for a UK 
call, at the time I was living in Scotland so my call became GM0MGW which 
after a year or so was changed again when I moved to Sheffield.  I don't 
think any of this has changed but I believe you can do it yourself now 
online and simply print off your new licence. Anyone know different?

73

Colin CT7ACG/G3VCQ



-----Original Message----- 
From: David Ferrington, M0XDF
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 11:36 AM
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Long calls.

interesting question - I believe that even if you've always lived in 
Scotland and applied for you license using an address in Scotland, your 
licence document would say G4WZG - but I'm open to being enlightened from 
someone who falls into that category.

73 de M0XDF

On 8 Mar 2011, at 11:19, Andy Cunningham wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Bernie McIntosh (GM4WZG) 
> <gm4wzg at kars.org.uk
>> wrote:
>
>>
>> Fortunately, although now resident in GM, my licence states "G4WZG"
>> otherwise I presume I would have to sign EA1/GM4WZG/P ? Or do all 
>> secondary
>> modifiers get dropped when working abroad ? Perhaps some knowledgable
>> person
>> might want to confirm this. Its always fun asking for knowledgable folk 
>> to
>> answer on this reflector :-). Cue different points of view..... At least
>> there can only be two points of view in this case. Or does someone want 
>> to
>> debate that point....
>>
>>
> Using anything other than the callsign printed on your licence (which I
> assume is G4WZG, even though the address is in Scotland) is going to cause
> confusion if you have to produce the licence for the local authorities, so 
> I
> would say to use what it says on your licence document.

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