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Callsign not following accepted formats

Open KP4AJ opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

Hi: Not functional related, but included here for a future. Test set a callsign as ROBERT which not follows accepted format. Aware there are other key developments in process. Also aware there are various callsign structure conventions across the world.

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Edfel KP4AJ

KP4AJ avatar Aug 12 '23 15:08 KP4AJ

Well thinking of Tactical callsigns (Hospital, Distribution, etc) in EMCOMM situations then the callsign format flexibility could be justified.

KP4AJ avatar Aug 12 '23 16:08 KP4AJ

There is an unused module in D-Rats that attempts to validate call signs for two countries.

There is also an unused structure in D-Rats that is being loaded with received call signs that I can not find anything ever reading. So there is a lot of room for improvement

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I can not find the ticket, but it is possible that APRS and Winlink may have more restrictive requirements for the Station Session ID than what D-Rats does, However they all may share the same call sign and session id configuration.

wb8tyw avatar Aug 12 '23 17:08 wb8tyw