Hi Guys, At 19:06 01-08-02 +0100, Fred Handscombe wrote:
>This is a near impossible task! I agree. The IOTA data base is the most dynamic of all those available in DXbase. As examples - "how many new US States are there likely to be in the future"? And new DXCC entities are now fairly rare. Right now a new IOTA has become active in Indonesia - OC-250. Until someone activated the island group a couple of days back there was no IOTA reference allocated although the island group is listed in the IOTA Directory. If one has a copy of the latest IOTA Directory it is easy enough to identify the new island grouping, it's generic name and lat/long attributes. It is then easy enough to add these details into the DXbase IOTA data base. If one does this as new IOTA references are issued it is simple to keep the database up to date. Of course when one upgrades to the next version of DXbase you will need to copy over your existing IOTA database if Jack/Courtney have not got their database up to speed. With new IOTA numbers coming up fairly frequently that is a nigh on impossible task for them. 73 de 9V1RH. David H. Rankin, 9V1RH/VK3QV P. O. Box 14 Pasir Panjang Singapore 911121 REPUBLIC of SINGAPORE. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML or had an attachment. Attachments are not allowed. Please post in Plain-Text only.---
