[Dx4win] DXCC Reports

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

DX4WIN prefixes were chosen to match the DXCC Award Credit Listing. 
This would make it easier for people to hand-compare their DX4WIN 
reports with the report they received from ARRL.  See these release notes:

     http://www.country-files.com/dx4win/history.htm#4

Subsequent to those changes, I wrote a program to compare the DXCC Award 
Credit Matrix from the ARRL LoTW site with DX4WIN.

Prefixes are changing, i.e. E7 will replace T9.  E5 has already replaced 
ZK2.

The country names should be obvious.  In some cases, DX4WIN reflects the 
legal country name (for a while, ARRL said Ivory Coast when the real 
name was Cote du Ivoire).

I have written to the ARRL DXCC Desk several times over the last several 
years regarding the differences between the printed ARRL DXCC List (and 
rules, that you can purchase from ARRL) and the award credit listing.  I 
don't know that their on-line DXCC list (www.arrl.org/awards/dxcc) 
completely matches either.  Bill has always told me that they're working 
to bring them into alignment, but it's an on-going process.

If you can't figure out something, just ask!

73 - Jim AD1C

On 1/24/2008 8:08 PM, William Liporace - WC2L wrote:
> I have not really been active. I have casually chased DX and have not updated DXCC since I got my first DXCC (one of the first local field checkers). I have decided to get up to date. I copied the ARRL DXCC Grid Report and printed that. I have also printed the DX4WIN DXCC report including deleted...
> 
> I understand the deleted being sorted at the end. I do NOT understand why Country names do not match? Prefixes do not match? and the sort order is not the same?
> 
> Here is a couple of examples:
> DX4WIN V 7.03.16                ARRL
> E7    Bosnia & Herzegovina      T9    Bosnia & Herzegovina
> HL    South Korea               HL,DS Republic of Korea
> 
> For Credit to Jim & DX4WIN,
> The FJ is in DX4WIN and not in the DXCC grid!!
> ARRL does not include the /letter in their grid!
> 
> There a many others, I just added the ones that stood out quickly. 
> So far, I am still muddling along!!

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