[CQ-Contest] ARRL Contest logging question: PE and PEI

[Henk Remijn PA5KT]

The rules say:
"W/VE stations in the 48 contiguous United States and Canada (except in 
the islands of St Paul and Sable) send signal report and state or 
province. "
PEI and PE seems to be valid abbreviations for this province and as the 
rules dont define them I guess it is up to the logcheckers to see what 
is valid.
How about Île-du-Prince-Édouard? In Quebec they speak french, so in 
french I guess it would be IPE or IDPE? Also valid? :-)

It might be an idea for the orginizing committee to specify in the rules 
what they expect to send. Something like the postal abbreviation of the 
state.
It is not clear for the senders as well, I worked someone during the cw 
contest who sent me several times MONT as state, he was very weak, but 
after some tries he came back with MT. With a less receiving antenna 
this would have been a busted qso. Was it 5NN MO K? or 5NN MONT?

73 Henk PA5KT


Jorge Diez - CX6VM schreef:
> Hello,
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> I received PE from a station in Prince Edward Island but N1MM only accept
> PEI.
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> I sent the log with PEI, that was I can write in N1MM.
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> I assume that all the people that use N1MM wrote PEI, also is PEI de letters
> for that province, so I think is right.
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> And what will happens with this station that sent PE. Will have a penalty
> for all of us that logged him as PEI, instead of PE that he sent?
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> 73,
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> Jorge
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> CX6VM
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>   


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