[aprssig] Few days from the largest amateur radio event...

[E.J. Caylor]

Ah, ok.  Now that's a reason that makes sense to me.  I'll makes sure
to change mine over to FD= when I get home tonight.

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)
<ldeffenb at homeside.to> wrote:
> Suffixes may work on some of the Internet search sites, but they don't work
> in APRS-IS filters which only support trailing wildcards, not true wildcards
> appearing anywhere in a string.
>
> Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ -Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32
>
>
> On 6/20/2012 2:02 PM, E.J. Caylor wrote:
>>
>> Seems to be FD= would be more universally searchable if people knew
>> ahead of time to search with FD=.
>>
>> Before this thread took place, I searched using *-FD and found several
>> Field Day objects.  I guess in my mind, it made more sense to me to
>> figure most stations would use their calls, appended with an -FD
>> suffix, similar to ham stations appending /P, etc, and not have the
>> Field Day identifier first.
>>
>> E.J.
>>
>>
>>> But that cannot easily be searched for by ALL clients.  Putting FD=... at
>>> the start of the name is a more universally searchable means...
>>>
>>> Bob, WB4aPR
>>>
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