[WriteLog] Log checking and the cty

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

At 07:06 PM 2/20/2006, Dave L Thompson K4JRB wrote:

>But we live in fear of calls being reassigned.  The French TO call signs
>can be anywhere.  Hopefully TO9A won't be reassigned amythime soon to say
>Reunion (FR5).

Since 1997, callsigns with a TO prefix can be assigned to any of the 
four overseas French departments: Reunion, Martinique, Guadeloupe and 
French Guyana. Callsigns with a TX prefix can be assigned to any 
overseas French territory, for example, New Caledonia or French 
Polynesia.  (thanks Jack, F6HMJ)

As to calls being reassigned, this has happened in the following cases:

TO5A is Martinique, FM *except* July 1996, it was used from Guadeloupe, FG.

TO5M was used from Martinique, FM in 1993; from St. Pierre et 
Miquelon, FP in 1995; and from Reunion, FR in October 2004.

>The question is do we use the cty as of the end of the contest or the
>current cty.  I use the current cty.

I think the .wl file includes the country data (which is why when you 
update your country file and then read in your log, the scoring 
doesn't automatically change).  CT does not.  If you are archiving a 
CT log, archive the country file along with it so you can reproduce 
your score later.

73 - Jim AD1C


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