25-10-2019, 06:25 PM
Quote:There are a number of advantages of this approach to cease the use of a letter block for licence demarcation. It allows new amateurs to have a callsign for life, and not to have to change as they progress from Foundation to Standard to Advanced. It also removes the subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) discrimination that has been reported by many foundation licence holders from a small number of higher licence class holders such as not responding to their CQ calls, or accusing them of running illegal power levels, simply because they have a strong signal. And it is easy to implement, as the processes and application forms already exist. Note that standard licence holders would also gain access to any callsign.
Sounds like the most sensible solution to me.