[RTTY] Logging NAQP DX stations

[Mike]

Hello,

Let me jump into this briar patch:  Entering an abbreviation for a NA DX 
station seems to me as a meaningless thing to do.  For instance I know 
XE1XX is an XE station.  Why should I have to enter XE or even XE1XX have 
to send XE.  It's meaningless as far as my correctly copying the exchange.

Suggest dropping the requirement for entering a NA DX station's DX 
abbreviation or count the provinces/states of the other NA DX countries as 
multipliers.  If the latter suggestion is adopted, then for the places that 
are a single jurisdiction you're back to the same situation as you have now.

Strongly suggest dropping any requirement to enter the abbreviation/country 
name for a NA DX station.

At 05:44 7/20/05, Shelby Summerville wrote:
>AA5AU wrote: The problem for me occurs when working non-USA/VE stations in
>NA.  The rules are as Shelby says, Name + Country.  What is acceptable with
>this?"
>
>WA7BNM replied to me, when I asked: "I presume, abbreviation, means the
>"usual DXCC abbreviation"? "Yes. The full country name is also acceptable."
>
>Now as the "full country name" most likely won't fit, in most logging
>programs,  it only makes sense to me, that the "usual DXCC abbreviation"
>would be used? This list can be found:
>http://www.arrl.org/awards/dxcc/dxcclist.txt
>
>C'Ya, Shelby - K4WW
>
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         73,
         Mike, K4GMH