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[Jim Reisert AD1C]

At 01:19 PM 12/29/2006, Ralf Baechle wrote:

>The assumption of amateur radio calls being at most 7 characters has been
>encoded in a significant if not even the majority of amateur radio software
>packages.

That's unfortunate.

The longest "common" format I have seen is 12 characters long:

         HB0/HB9AON/P

Note this is the same length as the recent VU7 callsigns:

         VU7LD/VU3RSB

It's too bad we can't go back in time and fix this (we couldn't fix 
the Y2K problem retroactively either).

73 - Jim AD1C


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