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Old 28th May 2022, 5:16 pm   #21
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I took the RAE in 1971 but did not apply for and get a license until 1993 I had no problem.

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Old 28th May 2022, 5:34 pm   #22
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I would suggest that you email OFCOM and explain your situation, the people I have needed to contact there have been both approachable and helpful.

(a while ago I had to contact them because I needed to revalidate my licence and since I sold my business I no longer had access to the email address I had listed with them. A quick email to them got my new email address associated with the callsign and a few minutes later I had a confirmation email with attached PDFs validating everything)
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Old 28th May 2022, 6:43 pm   #23
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Thanks for the link, I noted the huge rise in applicants at the start of the 80`s, obviously down to the spin off from 11 meters over 8500 in May 82!

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I passed the RAE in 1968 and applied for a Class B licence a few years later (G8GYW). I also joined the RSGB and they sent me a nice certificate.

Life got in the way and my licence lapsed. Some 40 years later retirement and the pandemic arrived. I sent my RAE and RSGB certificates to Ofcom and got my call sign back, now as a Full licence. Enjoying operating on HF for the first time!

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What a fascinating thread. I took the May 1964 exam, the PO morse test at the Liver Building in Liverpool in 1965 and was licensed as G3UIS in June 1965.

My fist shack picture is attached for info. I’m still active today

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Old 13th Jun 2022, 11:53 am   #26
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What a great picture. Just how a shack should be. Not a computer in sight!

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Old 13th Jun 2022, 1:11 pm   #27
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Malcolm G6ANZ View Post
I got a class B licence G8KGH then added a /M to it for mobile use. Finally I got a different call sign for fastscan television on the 70cm band and can above. This is where G6ANZ/T comes from. Now not needed but I like to keep it to confuse people.
I never did the morse test as I prefer the VHF working.

Malcolm G8KGH. & G6ANZ/T
Hi Malcolm,

Very interested in the /T Callsign. I know these were allocated
quite early on, I think from the 1960s, but when did they finish?
Nothing to do with the G6 class 'B' series of callsigns ?,-
indeed another station has G(M)6ANZ. Any info on when your callsign
was allocated, how you had to apply for it, and why you couldn't use
your G8 callsign /T would be appreciated.

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Old 13th Jun 2022, 3:12 pm   #28
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This useful web site,

http://m0ybc.weebly.com/historypart-2.html

says that TV and mobile licences were introduced in 1954 and that they were discontinued in 1977.

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Old 14th Jun 2022, 12:31 pm   #29
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Hi Roger,

Many thanks for that, I've saved it for future reference

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Yes, Roger, that's a good and illustrative timeline.

I never really got a grasp of the various historic 'variations' of the permitted frequency-range of 70MHz/4-Metres but that list is really informative.

[Who else here has operated with a M2+2-letter callsign? or a G9? I've done both, entirely legally]
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I must have got my G8KGH in about 1975. My friend G8GLQ was very interested in fast scan TV on 70 cm and applied for a special licence to transmit TV. was issued with g6ANT/T. As I was also interested in the same mode of transmission I wrote to the postmaster general, as it was, to apply for a /T licence. In the application I had to explain why I wanted the new licence and what I would be transmitting as well as how I could prove that the transmissions were in the 70cm band. My answers were that it was for self education and experimentation. The frequency would be checked with a tuned cavity calibrated by the manufacturers. As for the content I simply said that it would be test cards.
This all seemed to be in order and I was issued with G6ANZ/T. The first TX was a modified Pye Pocketphone on 70 cm with the PA modulated with the TV to give AM. The aerial at the time was an 88element multibeam on the top of a 40ft tower with a 14 element parabeam for 2m underneath it. The whole did wobble a bit in the wind.
Alas analogue TV on 70cm is no more as the bandwidth is too great for the band and its full of repeaters anyway.
I have thought about moving on to 1296MHz but its all digital and I cant justify the large outlay for a transmitter, although I have used a satellite receiver to receive GB3ZZ before it went off the air.


G6Tanuki, I have operated G6YB/P on various field days.

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