fix(dxcc): /MM and /AM belong to no entity

RI1FJL/MM resolved to Franz Josef Land while the expedition was still sailing
there, telling the operator they had worked an entity they had not.

The old behaviour was deliberate — the comment read "strict DXCC says no
entity, but the log should still show the operator's country" — and that is
wrong for exactly this reason. A home country on a maritime mobile is not extra
information; it is a false claim about where the contact happened, and it is
the kind of false claim that gets a QSO submitted for an award it cannot win.

Trailing only. A LEADING "MM" is the Scotland prefix and "AM" is Spain, so
MM0ABC and AM5X keep their entities — getting that wrong would be a far larger
error than the one being fixed. /P, /M and /B are unaffected: a portable
station is still ashore.

In the cluster the column says "Maritime mobile — no DXCC" rather than going
blank, because blank is what an UNRESOLVED spot looks like and the two mean
opposite things — one is "we don't know yet", this is "there is nothing to
know". Display only: the QSO's own Country stays empty, since that field holds
a DXCC entity name and there is none.
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package dxcc
import "testing"
// /MM and /AM belong to NO DXCC entity: the station is at sea or in the air.
//
// This is not a technicality. RI1FJL/MM resolved to Franz Josef Land while the
// expedition was still sailing there, which told the operator they had worked
// an entity they had not.
func TestMobileNoEntity(t *testing.T) {
for _, tc := range []struct {
call string
want bool
}{
{"RI1FJL/MM", true},
{"YB1SCY/AM", true},
{"ri1fjl/mm", true},
{" RI1FJL/MM ", true},
// A LEADING MM is Scotland and AM is Spain. Treating those as
// entity-less would be a far larger error than the one this fixes.
{"MM0ABC", false},
{"AM5X", false},
{"MM/F4BPO", false},
{"AM/DL1ABC", false},
// Other suffixes keep their entity — a portable station is still ashore.
{"F4BPO/P", false},
{"F4BPO/M", false},
{"4U1UN/B", false},
{"F4BPO", false},
// Only the LAST element counts: RI1FJL/MM/P is still maritime, and a
// call whose /MM is not final is not.
{"RI1FJL/MM/P", false},
{"", false},
} {
if got := IsMobileNoEntity(tc.call); got != tc.want {
t.Errorf("IsMobileNoEntity(%q) = %v, want %v", tc.call, got, tc.want)
}
}
}