However, the fact remains that these are perfectly valid callsigns. Why should they be excluded?<div><br></div><div>73 Ian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 May 2010 09:17, Brendan Minish <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ei6iz.brendan@gmail.com">ei6iz.brendan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 06:40 +0100, Ian Maude wrote:<br>
> Sorry to bring this up again. I have been running Dirks altered code<br>
> to allow 4 letter VK suffixes for several months. I know that you<br>
> changed your mind on allowing them Dirk but as the world does not<br>
> appear to have ended I wonder if you would change your mind and change<br>
> it back? Although the 4 letter suffixes are not formatted in the way<br>
> we would wish, they are perfectly valid callsigns issued by authority.<br>
> After the debates on allowing SWL's to use clusters I cannot see why<br>
> this change cannot be made.<br>
<br>
</div>There is now a SWL cluster, BUT it's isolated from the rest of the<br>
network.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Until it is, I cannot upgrade as I have several users with the 4<br>
> letter suffix.<br>
<br>
</div>The risk remains of unintended consequences where spots from these users<br>
get passed onto nodes running other/older cluster software.<br>
Indeed what do legacy versions of dxspider do about this situation?<br>
<br>
if vk1abcd gets truncated to vk1abc anywhere then we have a real<br>
problem.<br>
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73<br>
Brendan EI6IZ<br>
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