[Dx4win] Converting old Logs to DX4WIN?

[Gregory Brown]

I had several thousand records in WB2OPA years ago before making the switch to
DX4WIN.  I don't remember having any problems with the conversion except that I
needed to make a few manual changes for some "country exceptions" that had not
yet been updated in my new DX4WIN country database.  I'd suggest that you make a
hard copy of your worked countries list and make note of the various statistics
you are tracking and then do the conversion per DX4WIN instructions.  That will
make it easier to find those "exceptions".

Obviously, keep copies of your WB2OPA logs and program "just in case".  If you
have already started a log in DX4WIN and have new contacts there, don't try
importing your old log directly into your new one...create another (empty) log
and import it into that.  Once you determine that everything is ok, you can run
a merge on your two "new" logs. (note: I seem to remember that you can not save
a new log that is truely empty.  If that is still the case, simply put a dummy
entry in the new log before saving it, then run the import)

Greg KT0K