On Mon 06 Jul kevinr wrote: > I did hear some ESP code on 20 meters but not well enough to convince > me it wasn't just in my head. It happens now and then. Often when I'm > working and a squeaky fan is on.
One of these years, perhaps, HF conditions will pick up to the point where my KX3 might just enable me to manage a Net check-in from this side of the Atlantic. Not yet, though. I have, on one or two occasions this year, just about almost managed to hear (maybe) the occasional SOTA activator operating from a summit on the eastern side of North America, but none yet clearly enough for me to work, though other operators in Europe (with better antennas and better Morse than me) have succeeded. > On the next call I copied M0YK M0YK M0YK.ÂI stared at the paper trying > to figure it out.ÂWith code this good why hasn't he upgraded to a G > call? Heh. Given, for the most part, G* calls were issued first, and M* (and 2*) calls only came along (for amateurs, at least) when the G* space was full, I'm not sure there's ever been a path to upgrade from M to G. There are chunks of the G* space that used to be "class B licences" (without HF access), but that distinction died with the Morse Test. There have been cases where folk have taken over a call from a silent-key relative, but they're unusual. For the most part, calls are never re-isssued. Recently the regulator has relaxed (or possibly "confused") conditions a bit, and released some calls that were previously marked as "not to be isssued" into the pool, but changing your call when you're not also upgrading your licence is, at best, tedious. At best, these days, the only assumptions you can make are that Foundation licence holders will have an M?3*, M?6* or M?7* (where the ? is the regional modifier) call, Intermediate licence holders will have a 2* call, and all the rest will have Full licences of some vintage. Even then, there are some short (1- or 2-letter suffix) calls that break the pattern. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_signs_in_the_United_Kingdom and one or two other places try to make sense of the whole muddle, but just when it seems they've nailed it some other confusion comes along... -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281) ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
