Greetings,
In the next few days I'll be applying for a UK callsign, and because I will be at the "Full" licence level I can choose my own call, from a list of allowable (and non-allocated) ones.
One that seems to be available is G3EDM (it looks like it was SK and now lapsed). It has personal resonance because those three letters are my late grandfather's initials and he was a radio operator on the front lines in World War One.
But is it a good call for CW? I am worried that the single "dit" might be hard to copy in bad conditions. I've never been on the air, so don't have an easy way to evaluate that personally except that when I monitor the bands I find the single-dits in callsigns can go by rather fast.
Another question concerns calls that used to belong to an SK. Do UK hams feel that using such a call is disrespectful? (I am neutral on this issue which is why I am asking for advice. I do not want to offend anyone.) In a way this is a question for the Licensing sub-forum but might as well ask it here.
73 de Martin, KB1WSY