[SEDXC] [SECC] Possible Confusing County Abbreviations

[Michael Condon]

You can add:
White = WHIT
Whitfield = WFLD

Wilkes = WILK
Wilkinson = WKSN
to John's reminder about county abbreviations.

And, GA stations always send their county in all contacts.
And, when GA stations work other GA station, they enter the county of the 
station worked, not "GA".

So, "GA" should not ever show up as a QTH in sent or received exchages in any 
QSO's...  Odd, but true.

But... GA stations do put "GA" in their header setup info for the "LOCATION" or 
ARRL-SECTION" line.

The county abbreviation list is at: http://gqp.contesting.com/CountyList.htm

TNX John for the reminder.

Mike

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From: John T. Laney III <k4bai at att.net>
To: secc <secc at contesting.com>
Sent: Wed, April 6, 2011 8:32:01 AM
Subject: [SECC] Possible Confusing County Abbreviations

In preparation for the GQP this weekend, I made up a list of proposed 
counties for N4DU and me to use as W4R/M using the county abbreviations.
This reminded me that there are at least two sets of county 
abbreviations that are confusing.

Please note these:
CHAT = Chattahoochee, not Chatooga or Chatham.
CHTM = Chatham.
CHGA - Chatooga.

And Stewart is STWT, not STEW.

These have caused some confusion in recent years, so I thought it might 
be well to remind GA stations to be sure to use the official 
abbreviation list to avoid confusion.

73, John, K4BAI.
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