[DXBase] Re: LU1DZ/X??

Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:59:34 -0600

Maybe in that case AY1XS was an assigned call, and was not portable.
Where as LU1DZ was his assigned callsign and he's now operating portable in province X.

I think that's the difference...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Harlem W1EBI" <[email protected]>
To: "'FireBrick'" <[email protected]>
Cc: "'DXBase List'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 8:45 AM
Subject: RE: [DXBase] Re: LU1DZ/X??

> Can log it manually OK.  Have worked other SA-008 LU's such as AY1XS,
> where the "X" is actually the callsign suffix.  Go figure...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of FireBrick
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 9:38 AM
> To: George Harlem W1EBI
> Cc: DXBase List
> Subject: [DXBase] Re: LU1DZ/X??
> 
> Argentina uses Letters as indicators of which province he's in.
> So it's LU1DZ/ 'whatever province has the designation X'
> same as anyone else saying W9OL/1 would mean we are in the 1st district.
> 
> I can see how DXB would not be able to decode this as normally a /letter
> would indicate a
> country, not a state/province
> just one of those anomalies that are probably impossible to code and we
> just have to
> 'know' it.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "George Harlem W1EBI" <[email protected]>
> To: "'FireBrick'" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 8:31 AM
> Subject: RE: LU1DZ/X??
> 
> 
> > According to 425, he's in Tierra del Fuego, SA-008.  I got that part
> > from the Q, but can't figure the /X, it makes DXbase crazy.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: George Harlem [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of George
> > Harlem W1EBI
> > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 9:29 AM
> > To: 'FireBrick'
> > Subject: LU1DZ/X??
> >
> > Bill, what's up with that suffix?  A bunch of us worked him yesterday,
> > nobody asked (including me).  Shows up on packet as prefix "??",
> figured
> > you might know.
> >
> > GL if you're contesting tonight,
> > George W1EBI
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
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