[Dxbase] Country Prefixes

[George Johnson]

Ed,
My program version does the same thing.  I just added an Alias Map of YU to 
YU.  There was no entry of that type in the "system".
George .. W1ZT


At 04:18 PM 8/19/2004, Ed Parish K1EP wrote:
>I turned on the cluster today to search for some new band-modes.  It 
>flagged YU/OM2RC/P as a new band-mode.  I was puzzled, as I have YU 
>confirmed or worked many times.  Upon closer examination, DxBase said it 
>was Federal Republic of Germany, or prefix Y (which is deleted).  So why 
>did it not see the U of the YU?  I typed the call into the QSO field and 
>it again came up with FRG.   Did the prefix search stop on the first 
>letter?  Okay, so I tried this.  I typed in YA/K1EP into the QSO field, 
>fine, prefix is YA.  I typed YI/K1EP into the QSO field, fine, prefix is 
>YI.  Not that I was intending to go to either place soon.  But when I type 
>YU/K1EP into the QSO field, I end up with Y.
>
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