Subject: UK Regulator Ofcom No Longer Listing Unassigned Amateur Radio Call Signs
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01/10/2017
UK Telecommunications regulator Ofcom no longer issues lists of unassigned - or unallocated - Amateur Radio call signs. This practice ended last fall.
Replying to an inquiry, Ofcom's Julia Snape explained, "We do not hold a list of call signs that are available. Due to a system change, the assignment of call signs is now done using an algorithm rather than 'grabbing' from a list."
A call sign database[1] dated September 20, 2016, can be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet.
[1]
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0028/90397/Callsign-database-20-Sep.xlsx
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