[UK-CONTEST] G3GPO

[John SIMKINS]

Hello Stephen. I am sorry it has taken so long to reply to your query re G3GPO 
on the UK-CONTEST site. I think I may be one of the few people who can give you 
as close to a definitive answer as you  will get. G3GPO was never issued. A few 
years after it would have been issued in the normal process, I was part of a 
group who applied to the licensing authority - then located in St 
Martins-le-Grand in London for the issue of GB3GPO. This was at the beginning 
of January 1966 and was for a special event station to celebrate the 
commissioning of the "Birmingham Post Office Tower". What subsequently became 
Post Office Telecommunications, British Telecommunications and then BT was part 
of the Post Office Telephones Engineering Department at the time. We were told 
that this callsign could not be issued (and likewise not G3GPO either) in case 
it was confused with an "Official Station". We were granted GB3TEL and put it on 
the air in March 1966. I wish I had kept the correspondence. I did keep the QSLs 
- which I have been searching-for since your email to put a date to the data. I 
hope this is helpful, albeit disappointing.  73 John G8IYS (licensed 8 years 
later in 1974).   




________________________________
From: STEPHEN LAWRENCE <stephen.lawrence at btinternet.com>
To: uk-contest at contesting.com; dmuars at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, 28 April, 2011 19:16:03
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] G3GPO

Hello All.

I wonder if someone has an old call book in the corner of the shack showing the 
details for G3GPO from days of old'e please ?

73

Steve
G4EOF
_______________________________________________
UK-Contest mailing list
UK-Contest at contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/uk-contest