Alan, I am really surprised. I have over 1600 band countries confirmed and usually only show one or two that change. I trace those down and usually always find that it was due to the country being improperly entered in the first place. Jim offers a procedure on his web site to allow you to find out exactly what the problem is when one exists. If you have very old contacts (up to 50 or so years) in your log, there are many opportunities for error since prefixes were made up by operators, and the FCC has re-assigned prefixes for US territories, and similar events. Each and every one that I have found, Jim has carefully added these exceptions to the new database. I seriously doubt that ANY program data base is as good, so I don't know what program you would move to that would be as accurate. This data base is provided with DX4WIN but it is maintained at n/c by Jim.
Let Jim know if you have found a problem that would benefit other users. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Braun Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 5:38 PM To: J. F. Samuels Cc: DX4WIN List Server Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Missing DXCC Confirms with 604 This is a really irritating "feature" of DX4WIN. It would be MUCH more sensible if the program saved the DXCC country for each QSO in the log file itself, and just used the reference file to give you a suggestion as to where a new QSO fits, something like the "super check partial" files, or even the country reference files, in a contest logging program. Having to review your Q's to see if the country reference has gotten screwed up every time you upgrade the program is an incredible pain in the butt. This is the biggest single complaint I have about DX4Win, and if I ever decide to move to a different program, it will be for this reason. Alan NS0B J. F. Samuels wrote: > Did you follow the upgrade procedures? Did you save your old Country > file then merge it with the new one? Maybe some of your QSOs are not > ending up in the right country based upon the call sign. > > If you haven't upgraded your country file since you installed ver > 6.03, there have been many changes. See AD1C's site: > http://www.ad1c.us/ > > John, K2CIB > ----- Original Message ----- From: "n3drk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "dx4win" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 1:03 PM > Subject: [Dx4win] Missing DXCC Confirms with 604 > > >> Each time I download and install the latest version of DX4WIN, I have to >> hunt and find what happened to as many as 30 missing confirmed DXCC >> contacts. This is getting tiring. All I did was copy the file to 604 >> from >> 603. Why does this happen? >> Thanks >> john-n3drk >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dx4win mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Dx4win mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > _______________________________________________ Dx4win mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
