A sailing news article suggests some sailors in the Golden Globe Race have been operating in the amateur radio bands using made-up callsigns
For some reason the article references an entirely unrelated instance that occurred in 2015 when the UK regulator Ofcom revoked a small test batch of just over 500 licences where the holder had not been in contact with Ofcom either directly or by logging on to the website for over 8 years. As a result Ofcom discovered just how much the lengthy revocation procedure cost. They have not repeated the exercise
ead the article at
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.
com/2019/01/21/maintaining-information-barrier/
Golden Globe Race 2018-19
https://goldengloberace.com/