Steve This is a glitch in the international rules. It USED to be that you always sent your personal call first and then the portable with the qth of operation. But a few years back I think it was the IARU but not sure, ruled that it should be the country of operation, then the portable designator and your native callsign.
But I don't think it ever became an absolute regulation. You will see it both ways. In fact I've seen the same person signing his call both ways. So log it as you want, the ARRL will accept a qsl written in either convention. I always log it as the guy sends it...figure it's his call, he can send it the way he wants. A little problem is...DXB only recognizes it one way. Say you log it as W9OL/P5 on 160 rtty, if a cluster spot comes in for P5/W9OL on 160 rtty it will not be detected as having been previously worked. Or vice versa of course. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 7:43 AM Subject: [DXBase] logging question I work SSB Phone. I notice that I get two kinds of reports from stations as follows: 1. HI9 slash TM2XX 2. TM2XX portable HI9 I have been logging the former as HI9/TM2XX AND THE LATTER AS TM2XX/HI9 My sense is that there is no difference between the two and I guess both will work with DXbase. Is my assumption correct? How do others handle this. As I'm new on the air I could still reasonable change the entries to one style or another if that would make life easier down the road. Thanks, Steve Silberman W2KN -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . _______________________________________________ DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase
