Yes.
I believe for historical reasons (a bilateral agreement that pre-dates the CEPT arrangement), Americans and Canadians visiting each other’s countries APPEND the country designator, whereas in most of the rest of the world (including CEPT signatories) the country designator is PREPENDED for international travellers, leaving just other modifiers such as mobile and portable to be appended. IF the US and Canada were to fall into line with the rest with country designators PREPENDED, maybe our logging programs could be programmed not to identify, say, K1ABC/SU as being in Egypt. Likewise other informal suffixes such as /LH and /R could be distinguished from country designators. To me, the CEPT sequence seems more logical, similar to the grid squares and map references where successive characters give finer and finer details. Same again with the ISO standard date format (year then month then day). However, I suspect there may be genuine reasons why the US and Canada arrangement stands, and we all live with it. 73 Gary ZL2iFB (chanelling Spock) From: Rich Zwirko - K1HTV <k1...@comcast.net> Sent: 03 May 2020 10:50 To: WSJT <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] K2H/NAS and GRID SQUARE Ken, If you were operating in England, you call would be sent as M/NU0C and not NU0C/M. If you were operating mobile in England, it probably would be sent as M/NU0C/M, right? 73, Rich - K1HTV = = = Re: K2H/NAS and GRID SQUARE From: Kermit Lehman <ktfrog...@aol.com <mailto:ktfrog...@aol.com> > Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 10:42:41 EDT Then don't ever operate as NU0C/M (UK-England). Or /MM (UK-Scotland) or /AM (Spain). 73,Ken, AB1J
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