[Dx4win] Editing the country file gives you no special privileges

[wo2n]

AX would be Australia.
AX0 would be Heard or Macqurie
(i.e.) Australia VK = VH-VK,VL-VN,VZ,AX,AX2,VK2.
(i.e.) Heard Is.VK0 = VK0,AX0.
(i.e.) MacquarieVK) = VK0,AX0
Now with this logic AX0 would have brought Heard or Macquarie as the spot, 
not Australia.
73, Bernie/WO2N.>
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>
To: "wo2n" <wo2n at att.net>; <dx4win at mailman.qth.net>; "Jim Reisert AD1C" 
<jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Editing the country file gives you no special 
privileges


> --- wo2n <wo2n at att.net> wrote:
>
>> The cure is *NOT * to have multi prefix countries defaulted to *ONE* 
>> prefix
>> only with an incoming cluster spots :((
>
> This is a very difficult problem to solve.  How do you tell the program 
> that AX
> is Australia, but AX# may not be?  DX4WIN trys to match on the longest 
> thing it
> can find - first callsign, then 4-letter prefixes, then 3 then 2.  You 
> would
> end up not mapping ANY prefixes, and just have callsign mappings for these
> entities.  Do you know how big the country file would be (i.e. listing all 
> VP8
> callsigns in the Falklands)?
>
> More often than not, an announcement preceeds the operation from one of 
> these
> special entities.  AX0MT was the exception, unfortunately.
>
> We have become too accustomed to software and spotting, instead of just 
> tuning
> around, working what sounds interesting, then worrying later.
>
> 73 - Jim AD1C
>
>
> =====
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