[Dx4win] The Custom Awards database update will be delayed a bit

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

Hi Folks,

The next Custom Award database update is going to be delayed.  I
started working on it Sunday evening (local time) but ran into a major
problem with the Parks on the Air (POTA) award.

Many of the reference numbers have changed.  Instead of a DXCC prefix,
they now begin with a 2-letter country code.  For example:

     EA-#### => ES-####
     VE-#### => CA-####

If you were to update your Custom Awards database with this change,
most of your "Parks on the Air" custom award values would be blank
(empty) because they would no longer match what is in the database.
The POTA administrators did not change the reference numbers for the
USA (K-####) and some other countries, but many did change.  I don't
have a full list yet, and there is no automated way for me to do this
without writing more software.  I predict that any that have not
changed *will* change sometime down the road, i.e. K-00001 may/will
turn into US-00001.

This will delay the release of the next Custom Awards database so that
I can build a mapping table from the old reference numbers to the new
reference numbers.  Once the new database is available, you must run
the Multiple QSO operation, "Check Custom Awards" to update all the
reference numbers in your logbook.  This is similar to the procedure
you had to run when the USA reference numbers changed from 4 digits to
5 digits.

I am hoping to have a new database sometime later this week.

- Jim

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