[Dx4win] DX4WIN.CTY country file Release #98 - 15 July 2011

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

The DX4WIN country file, DX4WIN.CTY Release #98 is now available from:

    http://www.country-files.com/dx4win/

You can read the release notes at:

    http://www.country-files.com/dx4win/release.shtml

You can use the DX4WIN Data Updater to update the file:

    http://dx4win.ad1c.us/updater/

I've added "Republic of South Sudan", starting 14 July 2011, but it's 
really just a placeholder at this point, because the ITU has not issued 
a prefix block for this new entity.  This entity is using the prefixes 
ST0, 6T0 and 6U0.  Be aware that ST2M has been signing ST0A, but this is 
from Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, and not the new DXCC entity.

If the new entity comes on the air *before* I have released a new 
country file, here's what to do:  Just log the callsign that they are 
sending.  Don't append /ST0 or anything else on to it. You can change 
the Prefix field in your logbook to "ST0" if you like (future QSOs with 
that same callsign will then automatically come up as ST0).  When 
another country file is released, either with the ITU prefix, or the 
callsign assigned to the DXpedition, just update the country file, and 
your logbook will be automatically updated as well.  If you change the 
callsign (i.e. by adding /ST0 to the end of it), DX4WIN will likely 
*not* think that's the new entity, and you'll have to undo this change 
to receive DX4WIN credit for the entity.

73 - Jim AD1C

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