I'm afraid to say but AFAIK there are a lot more countries which require
a SUFFIX and not a PREFIX - only countries which accept CEPT-license
require a prefix.
WSJT-X gives us as a feature the country of the compound callsign - so
it should be the right country, independent of prefix or suffix.
73
Enrico, OE1EQW
Am 12.04.2018 um 22:45 schrieb [email protected]:
Friends,
I understand the reciprocal agreement between USA and Canada,
specifically, pre-dates the CEPT arrangement by many years, and
specifies a locational /suffix/ … whereas under CEPT and (I believe)
under most other reciprocal agreements, a locational /prefix/ is the
norm, leaving the /suffix/ to designate the type of installation e.g.
mobile, maritime mobile, portable, aeronautical mobile etc.
So, the VE or W locational /suffix/ is an exception … hence probably
not an ideal example to use for the global audience.
Prefixes, suffixes, special calls, remote operations, /QRP, IOTA &
zones references, and whether to log or ignore suffixes etc. opens a
massive can of worms that WSJT-X is not going to fix, so I suggest
ducking the issue as far as possible in the documentation, preferably
using the more common CEPT locational /prefix/ as an example rather
than the exceptional VE /suffix/?
That still leaves the issue of the program correctly identifying the
locations of stations from their callsigns: good luck with that, given
the vagaries of licensing and inconsistent usage in practice! The
grid reference is an alternative means of identifying where someone
actually is … but perhaps the whole issue is best left to our logging
software rather than WSJT-X.
73
Gary ZL2/GW4iFB/email!
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