[Dx4win] 6.04 upgrade problems

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

--- Floyd Sense <fsense at copper.net> wrote:

> Now, here's the new problem.  While trying to reconcile differences in the 
> country counts on all bands, I've run into a number of QSOs for which DX4WIN 
> erased the country name and prefix (that means they are now blank).  One 
> such QSO was for a contact logged as c/ZL3HI on Chatham Is.  That is the way 
> the call was sent, so that's the way it was logged.  However, in the country 
> file, it's entered as: ZL3HI/C.  It's probably not reasonable to have it 
> both ways in the country file, but it also is not reasonable to have DX4WIN 
> arbitrarily blank the country and prefix fields without any indication that 
> it happened.

If DX4WIN can't determine the country from the callsign, the prefix will be
blank. Try entering FR7AA/E or ZL4BO/C and see what happens.  You can probably
guess where these are, but the program can't guess.  The same goes for the
various X5-callsigns that don't count for DXCC.

73 - Jim AD1C


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