I take the list of states and provinces in section 5 of the rules as the
'official' position on abbreviations so I was sending NWT all weekend instead
of the more normal and expedient NT. Sounded like a very small number had
issues with it, including the ARRL contest robot that wanted to see a valid
section abbreviation (NT) instead of NWT. That was fine for me but VY1EI is
having some issues getting his log submitted from Yukon.
Maybe it's time to harmonize the multiplier list with SS and go by ARRL
sections or at least revise everything to use proper postal abbreviations. And
what's up with Labrador? It's been part of Newfoundland for 200 years now...
73
John - VE8EV
>The rules say:
>"W/VE stations in the 48 contiguous United States and Canada (except in
>the islands of St Paul and Sable) send signal report and state or
>province. "
>PEI and PE seems to be valid abbreviations for this province and as the
>rules dont define them I guess it is up to the logcheckers to see what
>is valid.
>How about Île-du-Prince-Édouard? In Quebec they speak french, so in
>french I guess it would be IPE or IDPE? Also valid? :-)
>
>It might be an idea for the orginizing committee to specify in the rules
>what they expect to send. Something like the postal abbreviation of the
>state.
>It is not clear for the senders as well, I worked someone during the cw
>contest who sent me several times MONT as state, he was very weak, but
>after some tries he came back with MT. With a less receiving antenna
>this would have been a busted qso. Was it 5NN MO K? or 5NN MONT?
>
>73 Henk PA5KT
>
>
>Jorge Diez - CX6VM schreef:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> I received PE from a station in Prince Edward Island but N1MM only accept
>> PEI.
>>
>>
>>
>> I sent the log with PEI, that was I can write in N1MM.
>>
>>
>>
>> I assume that all the people that use N1MM wrote PEI, also is PEI de letters
>> for that province, so I think is right.
>>
>>
>>
>> And what will happens with this station that sent PE. Will have a penalty
>> for all of us that logged him as PEI, instead of PE that he sent?
>>
>>
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Jorge
>>
>> CX6VM
>>
>>
>
>
>--
>Henk Remijn PA5KT
>email: pa5kt@remijn.net
>www: www.remijn.net
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