[Dxbase] DM stations

[Jack]

I've seen a number of similar messages where someone suggests something is 
"wrong" because this or that deleted prefix doesn't cause the summary window 
to show stats for that deleted prefix.

The problem here is really a misunderstanding about what the summary window 
is all about.  It is not designed to work as some of the messages suggest. 
It is intended to display results based on the current DXCC country list and 
their current prefix allocations.  When you enter a "prefix" into the 
summary window, DXbase is "not" looking up that prefix.  Instead, it is 
evaluating what you entered as if it was a callsign and then using all of 
the current prefix tables and callsign map tables, it is determining what 
country that entry is, based on current prefixes.  So, when you enter "DM" 
into the summary window, DXbase uses the alias prefix tables to determine 
that today a DM callsign is the DL prefix and it displays those results. 
The exception to this is when you click on an existing QSO record in which 
the prefix field contains "DM".  In this case, a direct lookup of that "DM" 
prefix is made and results displayed in the summary window.

If you want to know about some deleted prefix, then use the previous QSO 
module to look up a specific prefix.

Hope this helps,
Jack

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart Santelmann KC1F" <kc1f at adelphia.net>
To: "Bob Main" <bobmain1 at alltel.net>; "DXBase" <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Dxbase] DM stations


>
>>  I know that according to the DXCC rules that
>> QSOs before 1973 to DM lands don't seem to count toward DXCC. (Why? Who
>> knows?)  Still if QSOs were made before then shouldn't they show up?
>>
>> Bob
>> KB4CL
>>
>
> Well, pre-1973 German QSOs DO count toward DXCC, but as a deleted country.
> The rules seem to indicate that deleted countries count for every award
> except 5BDXCC and Honor Roll, unless I've read them wrong..
>
> Stu        KC1F
>
>
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