If you mean the call sign prefixes those have little to do with ARRL, they are assigned by the ITU, usually by the Secretary General under delegated authority to be confirmed by the next World Radiocommunications conference.
Larry, W4RA > -----Original Message----- > From: Neal Campbell [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 1:55 PM > To: DXBase List > Subject: [Dxbase] Status of PJ Updater > > 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
