[Dx4win] Adding Ducie

Steve Bookout [email protected]
Wed, 20 Mar 2002 07:45:57 -0500


Hello all,

I feel I need to mention a couple of important things to everyone about 
adding Ducie to the country database.  It seems most people are making it 
much harder than it needs to be.

The procedure is covered in plenty of detail in the users guide.  EVERYONE 
should have a users guide.  It is installed as a file along with the 
program, so you can print it out.  If you can't or won't print it BUY it 
from me.  Having originally spent the time to enter it here, I find that 
lots of you would like me to type it all out again in private Emails, which 
I really would like to avoid.  If you have tried and can't get it right, by 
all means, contact me and describe your problem and we can get it corrected.

Most of the problems you all are having is caused by not choosing 'update' 
after you add information to a specific area of the country editor.  If you 
want to add an new country, choose 'country | add'  from the top and enter 
all the needed information.  When you are done, choose 'country | UPDATE', 
in order to save what you have just done.

Because Ducie does not have a unique prefix, but shares one with Pitcairn, 
don't try to enter anything under 'mapping'.  This describes the start/stop 
date for unique prefixes used by a country.

'Callsigns' is for callsign exceptions.  You can enter the information 
here, as long as you are here, or you can do it from the QSO window.
If you do it from the QSO window, when you enter VP6DI it will show 
Pitcairn.  Go to the 'prefix' field and press 'F1'.  Locate 'Ducie' and 
double click on it.  Finish the contact if a new one or press 'F10' to 
update if it's an old one.

You have just created a callsign exception record which is the same as if 
you had done it from the country editor.

I mean no disrespect to anyone in my above comments.

73 de Steve, NR4M


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-Steve Bookout, NR4M (ex NJ4F)
Rapidan Data Systems

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