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- ; ANY line beginning with a semi-colon is a comment and is ignored by the
- ; logging program.
- ; This file is used by the CARF contest only to determine if a callsign
- ; is in Canada.
- ;This is a modified form of a file sent out on usenet.
- ;It is derived from the ARRL countries list.
- ;From: wmb@ulysses.att.com (W M Brelsford)
- ;Date: 3 Sep 91 20:47:20 GMT
- ;
- ;The colon-separated fields are:
- ;
- ; 1. primary amateur prefix ("*" suffix for deleted countries)
- ; Maximum of 6 chars are allowed in this field.
- ; My program ignores any line that has the * suffix.
- ; In my program this field must be a UNIQUE prefix or other identifier
- ; for each country. You can have several lines relating to one country
- ; (for example, to resolve zones).
- ; The program does not use this field to parse callsigns, only to
- ; identify a country by a short mnemonic prefix so this field is
- ; quite arbitrary. For example, the entry for Peru could have OA
- ; here since that is one of Peru's valid prefixes or you could put
- ; the word "Peru". The program doesn't care as long as each country
- ; has the same unique identifier here.
- ; 2. country name
- ; This field need only appear in the first occurrence of the country
- ; and can be left blank on subsequent lines. See the entry for VE in
- ; the table below.
- ; 3. continent Choices are, Af An As Eu Na Oc Sa
- ; If there is more than one zone for a particular entry only the first one
- ; is stored. You can add multiple lines in the file to allow the program
- ; to resolve the zones.
- ; 4. ITU zone(s)
- ; 5. CQ zone(s)
- ; 6. time zone (hours from UTC) This is ignored - not stored.
- ; 7. latitude
- ; 8. longitude
- ; All the preceding fields must fit on one line. But the two prefix fields
- ; (9 and 10) can easily be much longer than 80 characters. In order to make
- ; the file more readable, from the end of field 8 onwards a colon or a
- ; comma may be immediately followed by a backslash character which
- ; indicates that the prefix information is continued on the next line.
- ; The program ignores leading blanks on continuation lines.
- ; 9. ITU prefix allocation(s)
- ; 10. other amateur prefixes
- ; The program does not really care whether you put the prefixes in field
- ; 9 or field 10. But to keep things neat it might be best to put the
- ; specific ITU allocations in field 9 and then add any exceptions in
- ; field 10. But there MUST be at least one prefix or callsign in one of the
- ; two fields to allow the program to resolve that prefix.
- ; A sequence of prefixes may be specified such as VA-VG or 3A6-3G6.
- ; When a sequence is found the program the program compares the two and
- ; finds the first pair of corresponding letters that differ and then
- ; generates all the combinations.
- ; There are also three kinds of wildcards which are used when matching
- ; callsigns.
- ; The wildcards are:
- ; ! matches a single alphabetic character
- ; # matches a single numeric digit
- ; * matches all of the remaining string.
- ; You should use wildcards if possible because they do not
- ; generate multiple prefixes in the table whereas a sequence such as
- ; VA-VG generates the prefixes VA,VB,VC,VD,VE,VF,VG in the table whereas
- ; 4u#itu generates one prefix entry but matches ten possible calls.
- ;
- ;The original form of this file is maintained and distributed by:
- ;Bill Brelsford, K2DI
- ;AT&T, Basking Ridge NJ
- ;wmb@joplin.att.com
- ;
- ;But for corrections or additions to this specific logging program file
- ;send them to me:
- ; Pete Hardie
- ; 567 Delaronde Rd.
- ; Saskatoon
- ; SASK S7J 4A7
- ; CANADA
- ; VE5VA@VE5BBS.SK.CAN.NA
- ; hardie@herald.usask.ca
- ;
- VE:Canada:NA:02,03,04,09,75:01,02,03,04,05:-5:45N:76W:\
- CF-CK,CY-CZ,VA-VG,VO,VX-VY,XJ-XO:
- VE:Yukon:NA:02:01:-7:61N:135W:\
- vy1:
- VE:BC:NA:02:03:-7:50N:123W:\
- cf7-ck7,cy7-cz7,va7-vg7,vx7-vy7,xj7-xo7:
- VE:Alberta:NA:02:04:-6:54N:113W:\
- cf6-ck6,cy6-cz6,va6-vg6,vx6-vy6,xj6-xo6:
- VE:Saskatchewan:NA:03:04:-6:52N:106W:\
- cf5-ck5,cy5-cz5,va5-vg5,vx5-vy5,xj5-xo5:
- VE:Manitoba:NA:03:04:-5:50N:97W:\
- cf4-ck4,cy4-cz4,va4-vg4,vx4-vy4,xj4-xo4:
- VE:Ontario:NA:04:04:-5:45N:76W:\
- cf3-ck3,cy3-cz3,va3-vg3,vx3-vy3,xj3-xo3:
- VE:PEI:NA:09:05:-7:46N:63W:\
- vy2:
- VE:Newfoundland:NA:09:05:-7:53N:60W:\
- vo1:vo3,vo4,vo6-vo8
- VE:Labrador:NA:09:02:-7:49N:55W:\
- vo2:vo5,vo9
-