[Dxspider-support] VK 4 digit suffixes

[Ian Maude]

However, the fact remains that these are perfectly valid callsigns.  Why
should they be excluded?

73 Ian

On 28 May 2010 09:17, Brendan Minish <ei6iz.brendan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 06:40 +0100, Ian Maude wrote:
> > Sorry to bring this up again.  I have been running Dirks altered code
> > to allow 4 letter VK suffixes for several months.  I know that you
> > changed your mind on allowing them Dirk but as the world does not
> > appear to have ended I wonder if you would change your mind and change
> > it back?  Although the 4 letter suffixes are not formatted in the way
> > we would wish, they are perfectly valid callsigns issued by authority.
> > After the debates on allowing SWL's to use clusters I cannot see why
> > this change cannot be made.
>
> There is now a SWL cluster, BUT it's isolated from the rest of the
> network.
>
> > Until it is, I cannot upgrade as I have several users with the 4
> > letter suffix.
>
> The risk remains of unintended consequences where spots from these users
> get passed onto nodes running other/older cluster software.
> Indeed what do legacy versions of dxspider do about this situation?
>
> if vk1abcd gets truncated to vk1abc anywhere then we have a real
> problem.
>
>
> --
> 73
> Brendan EI6IZ
>
>
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