Many of you will have noticed that there has been a large number of callsign changes in the UK over the last week or so. This is because the UK licencing body, Ofcom, is introducing its licence updates. This includes allowing UK Intermediate Licence holders to swap 2#nXXX calls for M8XXX/M9XXX calls. And for UK Full licence holders to swap their existing call for any Full category yet to be issued or previously issued but revoked.
I thought it may be a good idea for everyone who has changed their callsign to post the old and new calls in this thread so we have somewhere were we can look up who is who.
Virtually twice as quick on CW so efficiency won over 40 years worth of nostalgia/vanity
Interestingly when trawling the callsign spreadsheet, there are plenty of ānormalā calls that were never issued and now available.
Also I found a few calls from operators who are still QRV yet the portal has made their call available to all as they mustāve lapsed years ago. You have all validated your UK calls every 5 years havenāt you?!
Thatās a shame Andy. I managed the South of France on 40m from G/CE-004 (Bardon Hill Leicestershire); not bad considering I had forgotten to charge the LiPo4 and was only running the KX2 on 7W:
I donāt know about you, but I didnāt even bother with 20m, as it was wall to wall āCQ contestā. Martin (M8BIA) on G/SP-004 reported 17m was open, but sadly it started raining before I could finish the pileup on 40m and jump on 17m. 24 QSOs, 2 S2S and a complete. Happy with that!
Iāve just noticed that this reflector has airbrushed out the former callsign of at least one contributor for posts going back many years and replaced it by his recently-assigned replacement callsign. It looks like I and others have been using the new callsign in our posts for donkeyās years.
I wish it worked by keeping the old callsign thus preserving the context of the original posts and applying the replacement callsign only to new posts from the time the user changed his callsign.
I think that now matter how things change on here there will be good and less-good (bad?) effects to the change. If you click my lovely avatar (no matter which one is in use) you get to see the following text āFormerly MM0FMF, Member of the SOTA MTā¦ā It seemed like a wise move to add that in.
Thatās spoilt the joke I was going to make [with apologies to Prince] the next time I posted to you addressing you as āThe SOTA Artist Formerly Known As MM0FMFā
Puzzlingly Iām good at callsigns (or was before you G/Ms started playing musical chairs with them). Itās names Iāve struggled with for my entire life!
Actually - to answer my own question: if all conversations in life had each over preceeded with ā### from Mattā, Iād probably remember names too!
Iām the same. I can remember a few names of familiar callsigns some of which wonāt be heard again (for at least 5 years). I put my name in my self-spots and get a surprising number of chasers who reply using it.
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