[Dx4win] Modifying the country database

[Steve Bookout]

Hello all,

As a follow up to my previous message...

When you have a DXCC country that doesn't have a prefix which can be used 
to identify it from another DXCC country, this is how it all works.

If you have a call, for example, 3D2LMB, unless you're psychic, you won't 
know if it's Fiji, Rotuma or Conway Reef.  Odds, being what they are, it 
will most likely be Fiji, so that is the default country displayed when a 
call like this is entered.
If you KNOW for sure that it's Conway or Rotuma, then tab over to the 
'prefix' field and enter the prefix you want it be credited to.  If you 
don't know the DX4WIN prefix, press the 'F1' key in this field and you will 
get the complete list. Double click on your choice.  Finish the 
contact.  When you press the 'enter' key, this call sign exception record 
will be added to the country database, under the 'call signs' tab for that 
country.

In the future, each time that specific call is entered, it will be 
automatically credited to the country indicated by the exception record, 
UNTIL IT IS CHANGED AGAIN TO SOMETHING ELSE.

If the 3D2LMB operation goes from Rotuma to Conway, again, for example, 
when you entered it, it would come up as 'Rotuma'.  Just go to the 'prefix' 
field and enter '3D2/C' for Conway, and from that point on it would be 
credited to Conway, until changed again, if needed.

The point is prefixes, and therefore DXCC country credit, can be manually 
assigned as needed, and is DATE SPECIFIC.

For those of you who entered Ducie into the country database, this is why 
the first time you entered VP6DI, it came up 'Pitcairn'.  At that point, 
you hadn't told the program that it was actually Ducie.  If you change the 
prefix to from 'VP6' to 'VP6/D', from that point on it will be credited 
automatically to Ducie.  If you are lucky enough to work Ducie on more than 
once, you will see that the subsequent times it is entered, it will show up 
as 'Ducie' as it should.

This type of situation covers ZK1 - North & South Cook; 3D2's, CE0's as 
CE0AA has been used on the different islands in the past; Ogasawara and 
Minami Toishima; Most of the UN peacekeeping calls and some of the 
different Antarctic Islands.

I hope this better explains how it works.

73 de Steve, NR4M




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

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