Special prefix

[MM3XXW]

To help celebrate "Homecoming 2009" all Scottish amateurs may use the letter 'A' as their secondary identifier;
GM = GA
MM = MA
This special prefix is only available until the 30th of November 2009 (11/30/09) so all you px hunters be aware

[M0TZO]

Found this on SOTA site:-

2009 is the year of Scottish Homecoming and is celebrating Scotland's contributions to the world. Such as whisky, haggis, Haviestoun's Bitter & Twisted Ale, Billy Connolly, Munro bagging, golf, Sean Connery (shurly shome mishtake) ;-) There are many events on throughout the year all over Scotland.

OFCOM have been generous enough to allow Scottish amateur stations the chance to use a special prefix during the Homecoming celebrations. All Scottish stations can apply for an NoV which allows them to replace the 'M' secondary locator with the letter "A" for Alba, the Gaelic name for Scotland. You can apply online for the NoV, mine was granted just now (23:05) and takes no time at all. The requirements being that your main station address is based in Scotland. The NoV expires at midnight November 30th.

The NoV URL is http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radiocomms/variation

Oidhche mhath

So Martyn, make sure you apply for the Notice of Variation (NoV) or it won't be valid.

[MM3XXW]

Yes Paul, already got mine and am good to go

It took somewhere in the region of 16secs to receive the NoV permission from Ofcom in fact by the time I'd closed the browser window and opened my email the reply was sitting waiting.
Now that's what I call service :lol: