[PaQSO] Mid Atlantic QSO Party Ideas and Other stuff

Mon, 20 Oct 2003 19:39:30 -0400

The VA QSO Party already has 3 letter abbreviations for the independent
cities that could be used.
- Kyle

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Subject: Re: [PaQSO] Mid Atlantic QSO Party Ideas and Other stuff

In a message dated 10/20/2003 18:46:27 Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected]
writes:

<< The New England QSO party uses a 5-letter location designator, I think,
with
 3 letters for county and 2 for state.  I'd look to that contest's mults.
for
 an idea. >>

I checked the web-site (www.neqp.org) and I was correct.  I.e.  Washington
County, RI is WASRI, while Washington County, VT is WASVT.  If we used
existing
designators for counties and suffix the two letters for the state, we may be
ok.

The only problem which may result is if any counties (or city counties in
VA)
have abbreviations longer than three characters.  Then, if suffixed with the
two letters for the state, the resulting location designator will be 6
characters long.   At that point the resulting designator may be too long
for many
existing computer logging files.

k3yd
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