[UK-CONTEST] Short Contest calls

[Stewart Bryant]

On 02/10/2012 11:16, Clive GM3POI wrote:
> Hi All,
> 	It is now 16 years since short calls were first made available. To
> date 33 individual and a total of about 180 calls have been issued out of
> 520 available.
> 	Is it not now well overdue  that we now  be allowed to use these
> callsigns in ANY Contest. Listening on the bands in any smaller contests
> shows the regular use in other Countries of short calls.
> 	 I am sure that Ofcom would be open to such a request, and it should
> be routine for the CC to encourage their use in in Many of  their  Contests.
> 	I cannot see the point of holding a contest call that you cannot use
> in any Contest.
> 73 Clive GM3POI
>

Related to that, it would be nice if the very useful 1*2 calls
were allocated through some process other than family inheritance.
The present scheme confers an inherited advantage which is
at odds with the egalitarian philosophy of amateur radio.

73

Stewart/G3YSX