Changing my callsign

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I will be changing to a new callsign in the next few hours-days-weeks depending how long things take at Ofcom.

Will I need to create a new account in the DB and start again from afresh with my awards or is it an easy process to transfer to a new callsign?

Many thanks
John
2Exxxx formally known as M7RTB :slight_smile:

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Only if you want a good shoe-ing :slight_smile:

John, thank you for asking and now here’s the serious answer.

The DB (and SOTAwatch and many other services) use SSO to manage your account. Log in to one service and you can automatically log into the other services. So you have a single account, hence the name, SSO Single Sign On. When you get your new call sign, login to SOTAwatch, click your user name on screen, click update account from the drop down menu and then you can simply enter your new call sign. Click save. Then PM / email me as sometimes the change fails to register and I will ensure everything worked.

On here we use your call sign as your username. We used to allow users to update their username to their new call sign but no matter how many times we told people, someone would register with their call and then change the username to some nonsense handle as soon as we weren’t looking. So now an admin will do that for you. Just post in this thread when you know it and an admin will do it for you.

Finally, congratulations on your new licence.

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Thanks Andy, All makes perfects sense, I work in IT and know what a pain us end users can be when names change, so would sooner ask then mess things up.

Will pop a message on here once the new callsign arrives Ofcom say 10days as had to apply via a form on email but we will see.

Thanks again John

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I guess a regex for callsigns in
discourse/app/models/username_validator.rb at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub

Would help. But unfortunately not available as plugin.

73 Joe

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Congrats John. Good to chat at CDARS last night.

Cheers
john
m0vaz

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Well done john, cant wait to work you under your new call!

Alan

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From now on I will be known as 2E1RTB, the amateur formerly known as M7RTB :slight_smile:

So glad I managed to keep RTB, 2#1’s don’t seem common so hopefully this will make me stand out on the air :slight_smile:

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