[Dx4win] New application note: Adding a New Entity

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

--- Alan Zack <k7acz at cox.net> wrote:

> One thing I find interesting about FJ becoming a separate country 
> is how the RSGB IOTA people are going to handle it.  St. Barts 
> (FJ) is IOTA NA-146, St. Martin (FS) is IOTA NA-105.  It appears 
> DX4WIN automatically assigned NA-105 to FS which included St. 
> Barts.

DX4WIN automatically assigns the most likely IOTA for given DXCC entity (in the
FS case, NA-105 which is St. Martin).  I know I have worked St. Barts many
times in the past, mostly with an FJ prefix, and manually entered NA-146 in my
log.  Here are some of them:

  FG0EUU/FS in 1978
  FJ/N0IMH in 1992
  N2HIG/FJ in 1993
  FJ/F6HWU in 1993
  FJ/N9SW in 1995
  FJ5AB in 1996
  FJ/K1YJK in 1998
  FJ/AA6YQ in 2000
  
For any entity with multiple possible IOTA, you may have to override the IOTA
in your log.

> That means I need to pull out all my FS QSL's and check if the 
> address info shown on the card is St. Barts or St. Martins.

You just have to search your log for QSOs with the FS entity, using a "partial
call" search of FJ in the callsign field.  Those are probably the only cards
you have to check.  However, if your cards are organized by DXCC entity (W7NN
sells dividers for this purpose), then it's probably easier to just pull out
all the FS cards and look through them.

73 - Jim AD1C


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Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us