[Dx4win] Do these prefixes need changing and comparing ARRL and DX4WIN reports?

[Wendell Wyly W5FL]

Hi Larry, Yes, I have noticed the differences quite often when trying to
compare the Official ARRL DXCC Printouts to DX4WIN.  There are a few more
than you listed, but I was not aware that it was possible to change them.
How do you do this?

I just received an electronic copy of my ARRL DXCC printout where a
correction had been made.  Unfortunately, it is Adobe Acrobat pdf format and
they cannot supply the native format (which might be more useful).  Does
anyone know any reasonable way to put pdf in a usable format (EXCEL, rich
text format (rtf), comma deliminated, etc) where it can be directly compared
with the DX4WIN countries worked listing?  I have quite a few
inconsistancies in the two lists and would like to research them without
doing it all as paper compares - which are extremely slow for 2000 band
countries.  Also have to fix all of the different country prefixes to do
this.

If anyone has the software to do this, I will be glad to send the pdf
formatted document to you as it probably takes at least Adobe Acrobat 5.0
( I have the full version 4.0) and that may or may not allow conversion to
Rich Text Format (rtf).  I can also send the DX4WIN report listing for
comparison.  Every way that I can find to do the conversion costs lots of
money and is intended for big corporate users.  I have considered scanning
the printed output and then doing an OCR, but that is not very clean either.

Any Ideas?

-----Original Message-----
From: dx4win-admin@mailman.qth.net
[mailto:dx4win-admin@mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Larry Alkoff
Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 10:19 PM
To: dx4win
Subject: [Dx4win] Do these prefixes need changing?


I recently went over the official ARRL DXCC countries list
and compared it to the list you get with F1 in the countries field of
DX4WIn.

Here are some changes I would like to make.

1.  Antarctica is listed as CE9 in the DXCC list, KC4 in DX4Win.
     The only reason to change that is to maintain the same alphabetical
order as ARRL.

2.  Franz Josef Land is listed as R1FJ in the DXCC list, 4K2 in DX4Win.
     I only have 2 qso's - R1FJV and UA3PAC/P
     Since 4K2 doesn't appear to be used shouldn't it be changed?

3.  Malyj Vysotskij Is is listed as R1MV in the DXCC list, 4J1 in DX4Win.
     Again I have 9 qso's with R1MVI recently and would like to change this
      on the basis that it's in actual use.

4.  Ukraine is listed as UR in the DXCC list, EM in DX4Win.
      This one is very confusing - I don't know where EM came from.
      My Ukraine qso's mostly start with UR.
      It's easier to associate UR with Ukraine than EM.
      EM is frequently used as a prefix for Antarctic stations!

All the rest are close enough and keep to the same alphabetical order as
the official ARRL countries list.

I would change these in my personal countries database.
Does this make good sense or am I tweaking needlessly?

Your comments please.

73, Larry Alkoff N2LA






Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX


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