Losing dits in the noise of 80 and 160 meters also stinks
not consulting people affected by your changes also stinks
SDGO not SDIE
73, Dennis N6KI
Larry Benko wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have been watching the comments about the 4 letter abbreviations over
> the past few days.
>
> I am the designer of the MARAC county abbreviations. In the MARAC CW
> contest there are a possible 3077 multipliers and with county names such
> as Washington, Washburn, Washita, Washoe, Washtenaw or Greene, Greenlee,
> Greensville, Greenup, Greenville, Greenwood we (MARAC) felt a need to do
> something about the abbreviation mess we had. Stations were using state
> QSO party abbreviations, making up their own, or just sending what ever
> they wanted.
>
> Considering the requirements I used when designing the list there are a
> few odd abbreviations. My criteria were to use 3 letter abbreviations
> ONLY for the 27 counties that have 3 letter names, uses the actual name
> for all counties with 4 letter names, have all counties abbreviations
> start with the first letter of the actual county name, have ALL Madison,
> Washington etc. counties abbreviated the same in all states and have no
> 2 counties in the same state able to be confused by the
> addition/deletion of a dit or dah to any letter. Given all these
> requirements and after considerable work and review we published the
> list. There were a few compromises such as Hill and Hall, TX which are
> too close in spelling and a dit/dah error can cause a mistake.
>
> Now with that all said, I really didn't expect that many state QSO
> parties would use the MARAC abbreviations. Anyone is certainly welcome
> to use them but a 4 letter abbreviation for Delaware which has only 3
> counties might be just a wee bit too much. The CAQP used about 80% of
> our abbreviations (the MARAC abbrev. for San Diego is SDGO and not
> SDIE). No matter what abbreviations are used it is certainly nice if
> everyone followed them. Expecting a 4 letter abbrev. and getting a 3
> letter one stinks.
>
> 73 to all,
> Larry, W0QE
>
>
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