Jim, The official who composed the Greek prefix did not know his ITU Radio Regulations, which state that it must consist of two characters and one digit, e.g. J42. Still you will have to deal with it.
For temporary licenses. however, there is no limit set for the length of the suffix. It does not take much knowledge of human nature to realize that worse is still to come! 73. Kjell, PB3SM - SM6CPI > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C > Sent: 22 April 2007 21:53 > To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net > Subject: RE: [Dx4win] Callsign not printed > > At 02:14 PM 4/22/2007, Kjell W. Strom wrote: > > >It looks like you are dealing with people who have not > understood the > >purpose of a callsign. 14 characters is almost a complete > pile-up QSO > >on CW. > > Hi Kjell, > > The longest typical callsign is something like this: > > HB0/DL1ABO/P > > which is 12 characters. > > However, these calls were active in 2004: > > J42004/OE3MZC > J42004/PA2JWN > J42004/SP5MXZ > > These cause problems in DX4WIN because the program truncates them to: > > J42004/OE3MZ > J42004/PA2JW > J42004/SP5MX > > If you were to enter those calls in DX4WIN, instead of > Greece, it would say Austria, Netherlands and Poland, > respectively. I had to add callsign exceptions to fix them. > > 73 - Jim AD1C > > > -- > Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA > 01863 USA +978-251-9933, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.ad1c.us > > _______________________________________________ > Dx4win mailing list > Dx4win@mailman.qth.net > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win >
