Hi All Thanks to Joe, I have a good game plan on the updates and its not as convoluted as I imagined. I am working on it right now so stay tuned.
I will also prepare a web page that shows the manual steps to recreate the prefix part of the update. I will also be publishing a new Hosts file in the coming week so you can have a more current list of nodes. 73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:02 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Well the ARRL country codes are in my DXbase 2007 under "ARRL Code". Whip > me if I'm wrong but look under Database Access. > > > > Ed....AB4IQ > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 12:34:16 PM > Subject: [Dxbase] re Updater > > > Neal, a couple of comments re your latest on Updater...and maybe Joe has > already mentionned these to you. > > DXBase uses prefixes as "country codes" in the program logic...ARRL > primarily uses the numeric codes, which as far as I know are not present > anywhere in DXBase and can therefore be ignored by DXBase. ARRL DOES use > prefix country codes in printouts/reports/forms purely for reader > convenience to identify countries in a way familiar to the users. in this > regard, the Czech rep/Slovak Rep situation is a good indicator of how to > deal with the old/new issue. ARRL assigned "old" Czechoslovakia an OK1 > designator in place of previous OK designator. OK1 was "linked" to the > Czechoslovakia country code replacing OK in their system. Then Czech Rep was > assigned the OK prefix (and OM for Slovak Rep) along with a new numeric > code. > > DXBase could handle prefix codes in a similar way I believe. When the new > ARRL prefix designators come out to replace PJ2 and PJ7 (might be PJ9 and > PJ8 for example...just my guess, need to await ARRL), DXBase could set them > up as primary prefixes with the same data as presently contained in PJ2 and > PJ7, and then recode all pre-10/10/10 qsos to the new designator > (edit/replace function). (Minor problem is the first 4 hours of 10/10/10 > each user would have to change manually later.) Then DXBase would rename PJ2 > and PJ7 to their new official names (assuming ARRL reuses these as they did > with OK) (data wouldn't change), and add PJ4 and PJ6 (assuming that is what > ARRL assigns) with appropriate data. Then go through the prefix mapping to > reassign PJ1-0 to their new primaries as of 10/10/10 and after. Might have > to look for any special PJ call prefix maps as well, or perhaps leave that > to the users as there probably aren't many if any. > > re Bonaire IOTA, don't see the problem. IOTAs are not inserted into the qso > database the way prefixes are, rather they are entered qso by qso by the > user. existing Bonaire qsos with the "old" IOTA number should be left alone; > they keep that number. after 10/10/10 if a user enters a PJ4 qso they would > simply insert the new IOTA number as they normally do. (of course the IOTA > database should be updated by adding the new IOTA in the normal way.) > > I'm not a programmer but all this seems to be doable using existing DXBase > functions (not unlike the example in the manual re VR, VP6 etc), albeit time > consuming...certainly an Updater would be profoundly helpful! > > Hank KF2O > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > ______________________________________________________________ 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
