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

[Larry Alkoff]

On Sat, 3 Aug 2002 23:33:07 -0500, Wendell Wyly W5FL wrote:

>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'd be interested in which "few more than you listed" you could suggest.


Yes it's quite possible to change any country data.
You want File | Databases | Country.
It's been a while but I think you select a prefix and have at it.
I strongly suggest you backup 
dx4win\save\dx4win.cty.
In fact, why not backup the entire dx4win\save subdirectory while you are at it.
Just make a dx4win\save.bak and copy all the files to it.


>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.
>

Under Acrobat 5 which I just looked at, you can export the document to a text file.
>From there it should be possible to manipulate it with various tools.
For example, under Linux awk and sed would probably be able to convert it to CSV.
If it's beyond your capability to do this (it's beyone _mine_) then I suggest you hire someone
to do the job for you.  Maybe a computer science student.


>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
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>Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
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Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX