I think you’ll download the latest version as a CSV file at this link Gerald. Then you can sort and slice at will in Excel or other Spreadsheets.
73 Marc G5TEA
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Exciting news and I popped onto the OfCom site using Safari (might be a red herring) and was hoping to see if I could change M0SNA to something different/better/exotic(G0BORIS or G1KIR) or simply quixotically English like a G blah blah…
Is there any easy way to see what is unassigned?
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Yes Paul you can follow the link to the spreadsheet I posted above OR you can check an option individually when logged into the portal and then follow the “amend" link for your licence,
Andy only did this to mess with my head. It is well known (especially by the examiner when I sat my morse test - remember them) that I mix up “L” and “F” 
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Hello , How do you go about changing your call, I would like to revert to my B licence call ( G7SKU) and have tried to change it on the Ofcom website but it says it is unavailable. I’m not sure if this is because I am attempting to go backwards in the callsign ( A licence to B) or I’m trying to do it in the wrong way or it really is unavailable !
No, all Class A and Class B callsigns were redefined as ‘Full’ by Ofcom when the Morse test requirement was abolished. It’s more likely that you stopped paying the annual fee for the Class B license when you got your Class A license so the former was revoked. I continued to pay for both until the amateur radio service was downgraded to a non-subscription one, and still have both.
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When did your surrender G7SKU or when was the last time you revalidated it? It might still be in the cooling off period although interestingly I cant see it at all in the callsign list.
You continue to push this myth. There was no downgrade in the service.
Nothing you will see in print of course but historically the needs and wishes of customers and clients who pay for a service are more accommodated than those who get the service for free.
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The old paper based system was expensive to administer so there was a charge. An online system is cheap to administer so there is no charge. Simple as that. No need for conspiracy theories.
Richard, I’m not going around this circle again. We discussed this twice before. What I suspect will happen [e.g. further loss of SHF bands or parts thereof] will be because of the status of radio amateurs c.f. commercial interests. I can’t prove what hasn’t happened yet. It’s no conspiracy theory, just my opinion.
I stopped using radio for about 15 years and in the mean time lost the original G7SKU call. This was for a number of reasons one of which was the handing out of M0 calls to none Morse pass candidates just after I passed after a real struggle to do so . I used HF for a short while but realised in the end it was just not my thing. I have to admit the M0 thing still grates on me a little !
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So it should be available for reissue. Contact Ofcom and they may be able to get it back for you.
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Thanks I will do that, I did try and get it back when I first came back to radio but as I hadn’t been in any of the call books I couldn’t prove it had been mine. The system has of course been changed since. I’ll give them a call in the week
The annual fee was £15 in 2006 (the last year before it was abolished) which is about £26 in 2025 money. Apparently there are around 80000 licence holders so that’s an annual revenue of about £2 million.
Ofcom has just announced the results of auctions for spectrum. Three mobile phone companies have each obtained 1800MHz of spectrum and paid £13 million pounds. In addition mobile phone companies pay an annual licence fee. The amount varies depending on the band. For example, in the 2100MHz band they pay £0.561m per MHz.
Do you really think £2 million of amateur licence revenue will make any difference to whether our bands are auctioned off for commercial interests?
No I don’t, but you’re missing the point again [it’s not about the cash value] and that’s why I’m not going to repeat what I wrote in the past and about which you disagreed at the time. I suggest you let it go and accept we have differing views on this.
Just sent them an email as I cannot use a phone during the day. If I get any where I’ll let you all know just in case someone else would like to do the same.
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Your alerts for 1 and 2 November are still 2E0BIA.
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Unintended consequences … time-travel?
Apparently, someone from the future posted a message last January, signed by someone else from the past?
IT change is never easy, even with plenty of testing … ?
73 Dave
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All sorted ! I sent Ofcom an email and said I was having problems changing my call from an A to B licence call, I checked my mail when I got home and they have changed it for me and issued a new licence doc so my callsign is now back to G7SKU . Now how to change it on here !
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