I just realized something important to IOTA (RSGB Islands on the Air) chasers that was left out of the announcement.
Paul added a feature to DX4WIN 9.01 where the country file can assign IOTA based on individual prefixes or callsigns. An example of this is to try to (test) log a call like VK7ABC. Instead of coming up as IOTA OC001/Australia, it comes up as IOTA OC006/Tasmania. The country file will assign IOTA for prefixes which specify a unique IOTA. For example, a callsign with the IF9 prefix will come up as IOTA EU054. 3B7 and 3B7 will be logged with different IOTAs. 7O6T from May 2012 will come up as IOTA AF028. The list of prefixes is long (800+) so I'm not going to post it. If you're curious, let me know off-line. This means that DX4WIN has the potential to assign a unique IOTA for many individual callsigns, like ZL9A in January 2016 (Antipodes). However, that would take quite a bit of work which I do not have time for. If someone wants to accumulate such a list and send it to me, I would consider it -- contact me off-line and I'll tell you what I need. I suppose I could do (should have done) this for upcoming DXpeditions, for example VK9AR and VK9AR/6. I'll keep this in mind going forward, especially for callsigns that need to be added to the country file anyway, like VK9AR and VK9AR/6, and unlike calls like 5L3BI which do not need to be added to the country file. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, <[email protected]>, http://www.ad1c.us ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] Message delivered to [email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
