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

Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) ldeffenb at homeside.to
Wed Jun 20 14:11:34 EDT 2012


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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