Yeah, I know they get counted as mults but should they be, given the way
they are supposed to be applied, is my question. According to the rules, it
comes 'after' the callsign so, in my warped thinking, the /W4 would be
similar in nature to the /P or /MM designator and not a true "prefix". It
would be more proper, in my opinion, if the W4 came before the callsign.
I have found, when using N1MM logger, that the appended /W4 is not
recognized as a standard prefix so I have had to put them in front of the
calls to get the logger to log it correctly. I don't know if anyone else has
found that.
73 -- Paul VO1HE
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Cassel [mailto:ve3xd@rogers.com]
> Sent: February 5, 2008 12:27
> To: vo1he@rac.ca; 'Joe Subich, W4TV'; cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] Prefixes in WPX
>
> Interesting point Paul. I have used the /W4 suffix previously
> in WPX contests and the W4 has always counted as the prefix
> to the best of my knowledge. I just tested this in Writelog
> and when used as either a prefix or a suffix it is recognized
> as a prefix for scoring and counts only once as a mult.
>
> The benefit of using NV4 instead of W4 (which started all
> this) is that it is a rarely used prefix in the WPX and would
> be in great demand for a mult.
> As you know this is a contest where lots of unusual prefixes
> appear that are not normally used in other contests.
>
> 73, Don VE3XD/W4
>
>
> >For your purposes, Don, I don't know what the benefit would be to use
> anything but W4 if you have to sign with >a /W4 modifier. In
> this case, wouldn't your prefix still be VE3? The W4 would be
> a location modifier but, as it >doesn't come before your
> callsign, should it count as a prefix?
>
>
> 73 -- Paul VO1HE
>
>
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