I noticed that /M and /MM are missing from the "Short-list of Add-on Suffixes" under the Help menu: is that just a little error on the help text or a genuine (if surprising) omission from the list?
I'm puzzled because I worked a /MM station yesterday, painlessly as I recall. He gave his full call in his CQ message, and again in his 73. I gave it in my 73 message. 73 Gary ZL2iFB -----Original Message----- From: Joe Taylor [mailto:j...@princeton.edu] Sent: Wednesday, 21 February 2018 2:45 a.m. To: WSJT software development <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] extended CALL, FT8 spare bit Itzok -- On 2/19/2018 11:56 PM, Iztok Saje S52D wrote: > Z6 is not (yet) on the list of 330 valid prefixes (prefixes.txt), as > it is rather new. Your comment seems to indicate a serious misunderstanding about the way standard callsigns and compound callsigns are handled in the structured protocols developed for WSJT and WSJT-X. Standard callsigns like Z6ABC, Z6XYZ, ... are fully supported in the structured protocols, and always have been. This is well documented, for example here in the WSJT-X User Guide https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main-1.8.0.html#PR OTOCOLS "An amateur callsign consists of a one- or two-character prefix, at least one of which must be a letter, followed by a digit and a suffix of one to three letters." Two different mechanisms are provided for support of compound callsigns. The suffix /P and the prefix ZA/ appear in the fixed list of "Type 1 Prefixes and Suffixes", so the callsigns K1ABC/P and ZA/K1ABC are handled with the Type 1 mechanism. The prefix Z6/ does not appear in the Type 1 list, so calls like Z6/K1ABC are handles as Type 2 compound callsigns. More details can be found in the WSJT-X User Guiude here: http://www.physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main-1.8.0.html #COMP-CALL The list of Type 1 prefixes and suffixes was determined more than 10 years ago, and has remained fixed since then. It will not be changed. All other add-on prefixes and suffixes are supported through the "Type 2" addition to the source-encoding protocol. -- 73, Joe, K1JT ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
