Not every licensing authority has the same rules regarding portable operation. Many of the countries do not have callsign districts so they do not use the same conventions as are used in the USA or Canada. I have lived overseas and /P is the correct portable indicator for many countries in region 1, while a few still use /A. It is also not an option to use this identifier it is manditory. It should not be that difficult if we all our portable identifiers correctly if you are not operating from the station location given on your license. The national identifier for the majority of the world in placed in front of the operators callsign not after it. 5H3/VE3EUP etc. Some countries are casual about this and others are not. It may take a bit work on the logic to deal with callsigns with two "/" in it. Things like /P /M /A /AM /MM /TM should not count for prefixes while W4AA/5 should be considered as a W5.
The idea of not putting "/M" after a call because the logging or contest program can not handle it is wrong because it leads to many not in the log replies to people asking cards from many of the stations I handle as a QSL Mgr as they were not logged that way. I do not know how frustrating that must be for those who are working for a /M DXCC but I can image how it would affect me if I were in there shoes and I think most others can if they are being benevolent rather than me first. They still get a QSL but the card does not show the /M that they need so is not meeting their needs. It may seem a small matter to many, because we are indifferent to the /M operators, but them it is a big deal. I personally do not worry about prefixes so for me I can be indifferent about it for my own operations as the prefix column is not of concern. 73 Garth VE3HO At 04:40 PM 03.06.2003 -0400, you wrote: >The confusion as I see it is that there is two / slash marks in the call and >the program gets confused as to which is the portable call. >You see when you go portable to a location outside your calling area you are >already a portable operation. > >EXAMPLE: If you go to the 8th call area you would sign WA4OYH/8 , on a >phone contact you would say WA4OYH portable 8. > > So SV5/DJ5AA/P should sign his call DJ5AA portable SV5 >and the log entry should say DJ5AA/SV5 or SV5/DJ5AA > > You can operate portable and just be a portable operation >and sign WA4OYH/p and you can make that entry into your log with no >problems. > > This practice has been around for the 40 years I have been interested in >Amateur radio I hope this answers your confusion. > > >73 de Jim K2SNJ > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of Bill Nowicki [WA4OYH] >Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 11:26 AM >To: DXBase Reflector >Subject: RE: [DXBase] WPX Prefix handling logic > >The /P could be very important if the DX station keeps separate logs for >each call he uses. It would not be good to have a card returned "not in log" >because of a missing /P. It is a never ending task for DXBase to keep up >with all the changes in call signs over the world, but portable operations >have been with us for a long time and handling them should be addressed by >the developers of DXBase. > >73 Bill WA4OYH > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of Jim Preston >Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 9:22 AM >To: DXBase Reflector >Subject: Re: [DXBase] WPX Prefix handling logic > > >The /P is not part of the call. While it might be required by the >country in question (or not, as the case might be), it is not necessary >to include it in your log. Leave off the /P and all will be well. > >73, Jim N6VH > > > >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Gintaras Sakenas LY2KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 7:21 AM >> Subject: [DXBase] WPX Prefix handling logic >> >> >> >>>Is it just me? SV5/DJ5AA/P is assigned P0 prefix for WPX by DXBase (I am >> >> on 2003 version). I am new >> >>>to it so may have configured something the wrong way. >>> >>>73, Gintas LY2KW >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com >>>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >>>To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: >>>http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com >> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >> To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: >> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: >http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > > >_______________________________________________ >DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: >http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > > >_______________________________________________ >DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: >http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase
