Hi Bob, that makes a lot of sense, and easier to remember. There are, I guess always going to be exceptions to the rule, like VK9HR this summer, was on Lord Howl. I have a VK9TR from Willis Is. Pays to double check countries with multi prefixes, you could be holding a rare one, hi. Tnx, GL 73 de Bernie/WO2N.>
-----Original Message----- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of R.T.Liddy Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 12:47 AM To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Prefix Logic It appears to me that an Entity like Willis would have VK9W because Australia actually issues the Calls for there specifically as VK9Wxx. So, the Entity would be obvious from the Call. However, some Countries use the same prefix for several ARRL Entities and there needs to be some way to differentiate them in the database. An HK0 could be San Andres or Malpelo, so a /M is put after the HK0 to specifically denote it as Malpelo. Other eaxmples would be FR and JD1 versus PY0Txx and CE0Yxx. IMHO 73, Bob K8BL --- On Sun, 1/8/12, WO2N <w...@att.net> wrote: From: WO2N <w...@att.net> Subject: [Dx4win] Prefix Logic To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Date: Sunday, January 8, 2012, 9:47 PM Looking at the prefix list, What's the reasoning for some multi-prefix countries identified by forward stroked, and others are not? Example Willis is VK9W, but Malpelo is HK0/M. When I search via prefix I don't kn if it wants a / or not.. I kn f1 brings up the list. Tnx for your reply 73,de Bernie/WO2N.> ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
