[Logic] Canadian Provinces further information

[Mel Martin]

So, in the ARRL 10M contest, if you work a station in Labrador and a station
in Newfoundland (the island)... you score higher with NA than CT? That
doesn't make sense!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "k3gv" <k3gv@netzero.net>
To: "LOGic" <LOGic@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 11:21
Subject: [Logic] Canadian Provinces further information


> I am posting this information FWIW. It is a response from the developer of
> CT.
>
> "Unlike TR and NA, CT is defining 13 Canadian multipliers corresponding to
> the Canadian Provinces. It uses the official Canadian postal
abbreviations,
> Labrador and Newfoundland are one mult, abbreviation NL.
>
> Alberta AB
> British Columbia BC
> Manitoba MB
> New Brunswick NB
> Newfoundland and Labrador NL
> Northwest Territories NT
> Nova Scotia NS
> Nunavut NU
> Ontario ON
> Prince Edward Island PE
> Quebec QC
> Saskatchewan SK
> Yukon YT
>
> It also allows aliases, as CT has always done. DEL means DE, PEI means PE.
> If CT can't come up with a state or province based on the typed input, you
> can't log it. As a service to the operator, it allows the Canadian prefix
in
> the state/province field because the prefix usually determines the
province:
>
> NL:         NL, NF, LB, LAB, VO1, VO2;  VE_1
> NS:         NS,              VE1;       VE_1
> QC:         QC, PQ, QU,      VE2;       VE_1
> ON:         ON, ONT,         VE3;       VE_1
> MB:         MB, MAN,         VE4;       VE_1
> SK:         SK, SA,          VE5;       VE_1
> AB:         AB, ALT, ALB,    VE6;       VE_1
> BC:         BC,              VE7;       VE_2
> NT:         NT, NWT,         VE8;       VE_2
> NB:         NB,              VE9;       VE_2
> NU:         NU, NUN,         VY0;       VE_2
> YT:         YT, YUK,         VY1;       VE_2
> PE:         PE, PEI,         VY2;       VE_2
>
>
> As a service to the log checkers, it converts the aliases to the correct
> abbreviations when building the Cabrillo file. PAC becomes HI, LAB becomes
> NL and so on. Some users may complain that the Cabrillo file doesn't
contain
> the data actually copied, just the "corrected" data. Sorry."
>
>
> 73,
> George K3GV
>
> DX: Long may it live !
>
> If it isn't LOGic, then it isn't LOGging
>
>
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