Following is extract from rules for Canada Day Test relating to Province
identity.
Canada?s 10 provinces and three territories, and may be counted once on
each mode on each of the eight contest bands. The multipliers,
with their postal abbreviations and prefixes are: Nova Scotia [NS]
(VE1, CY9, CYØ); Quebec [QC] (VE2, VA2); Ontario [ON] (VE3, VA3);
Manitoba [MB] (VE4); Saskatchewan [SK] (VE5); Alberta [AB] (VE6);
British Columbia [BC] (VE7); Northwest Territories [NT] (VE8); New
Brunswick [NB] (VE9); Newfoundland and Labrador [NF] (VO1, VO2);
Nunavut [NU] (VY0); Yukon [YT] (VY1); and Prince Edward Island [PE]
(VY2).
Full contest rules may be obtained at following URL.
http://www.rac.ca/CANDAY.htm
Bill, W5BBR
Dave wrote:
>
> Gary
>
> I thought I had a problem at first...seems Writelog wont accept 3 letter
> abbreviations for provinces. So if you work VE8RAC on CW and he sends "NWT"
> you get to play around for a minute ..."NWT" ..."invalid province"..."NW
> "???? nope wont accept that either ..how about "NT" ahhh now the finicky
> program will accept that.
>
> watch out for PEI vs PE as well....I'l bet ONT doesn't work either..#%@$&*
>
> At 02:43 PM 6/30/02 -1000, GARY E BELCHER wrote:
> >Has anyone had a problem with the Canada Day Contest from outside
> >Canada? I opened it up and it wont take Canadian provinces for the
> >'RCVD' - seems to want 59 type of report. Anyone else see this. Writelog
> >has never failed me til now.
> >ALOHA de Gary KH6GMP
> >
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