At 08:17 AM 12/11/02 -0500, Pete Smith wrote:
>At 01:23 PM 12/10/02 -0800, Tree wrote:
>>Allowing it to be called anything else will result in confusion. The
>>robot is doing its job by alerting you to the problem in real time
>>so that you can fix it with a quick edit to your file. I realize
>>that some might not like the NWT designation - but I would suggest
>>they need to take this up with whomever made up that list on the
>>ARRL web site - not the robot author.
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>Tree also doesn't mention it, but it is trivial for the logging software to
>accept virtually anything people send and enter the correct abbreviation in
>the log. TR Log already does that, and I'm astounded if the other major
>programs don't.
Actually, here is the line from the SEC.DAT file in CT. The first entry is the
"official" abbreviation, and the subsequent entries are acceptable entries.
YT: YT,YU,NW,VE8,VY1; VE
Funny, NWT is not an accepted abbreviation, I guess I will have to add it...
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