Hi Neal, thanks for info, we will wait... 73 de Gius, IT9VDQ Il 17/10/2010 19.54, Neal Campbell ha scritto: > Hi All, > > Looking at what everyone pre-supposes, it appears consensus is that the > League will re-use the existing prefixes with the four new DXCC entities. > This is very difficult for doing the upgrade in DXBase as some of you have > commented to me. > > The issue, and this is programming-speak, is that the Primary Prefix does > not allow duplicate primary prefixes to exist in the database. Purely > related to the database, there is a way around this but Jack believes it > would be very dangerous in terms of the logic in DXBase. > > If the supposition is correct of re-using the prefixes, this will require > that we delete the pre-10/10/2010 entities, add them back with a different > prefix as deleted entities, then add the new entities. Secondly, we will > have to go through all your qsos using the old entities and replace the > deleted prefixes with the new prefixes. The other option is to leave the old > prefixes alone and just add the new entities with special prefixes to > differentiate them. Either way, there is a question about how LOTW, for > instance, would handle these qsos. > > I really, really hope the League does not reuse the prefixes so we do not > have to do this convoluted process. > > I hope to get up with the Awards director at the League early next week and > get clarification. You will be the second to know what I hear. > > 73 > Neal Campbell > Abroham Neal Software > www.abrohamnealsoftware.com > (540) 645 5394 > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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