You gloss over something there. You always have to check the DXCC total after doing anything with the country file. Mine generally changes by one or two. I really should document it next time it happens so that the country file can reflect the special countries.
The issue this time is a glitch in the country file updating or something causing about 15,000 QSO's to lose their state information. I had the brilliant idea of downloading my entire LOTW QSL file to update at least some of the Q's. But apparently if the Upload Confirmed flag is marked the download has no effect. Or at least it appears that way. Even worse is the damage done to the county information. Apparently if you remove the state the county goes with it. Now I can re-enter that information from about 3,000 QSL's. Nice pleasant task. The fact is that I did *NOTHING* to cause this problem except add FJ and the TO5 station as FJ. Now, I assume that every time I try to do such a thing I'll get the grid index out of range error again. Do I lose the state information every time also? Fact is, due to ADIF, there is a unique number assigned to each DXCC entity. DX4WIN knows about this and could exploit it by storing that number in each log record. Then the country file would only be used to determine the number. Perhaps not all deleted countries have a number but DX4WIN could create their own for those in some way. Other log programs have this problem -- how do they solve it? I also suspect a glitch in the LOTW updating that may be clearing the Confirmed Flag. Just a suspicion. To be blunt, there is a serious defect in the DX4WIN design that a defect in the DX4WIN program exploits. 73, Mike WA0SXV -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Branch Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 16:33 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Dx4win] Unhappy with DX4WIN Mike, I've been a user since 0.93B--pretty much since the beginning. I don't know why you're having problems with country files. I simply replace my existing file with latest AD1C version, check the DXCC summary to make sure nothing changed, and all is good to go. Perhaps you are trying to merge the country files? There may be a good reason to merge your country files if you have some unique callsign mappings or QSL managers not in the AD1C release. Personally I gave up merging years ago and simply use the AD1C release "as is". I'm not sure that the country file actually changes anything in the log file but I could be wrong. I've never tried to go back to an older country file but may try it just to see what happens. 73 de Tom, K4NR
