Sorry, I ended that last mail with an unfinished sentence! I meant to say I will keep you informed when any information comes my way and everytime I post an update to the datafiles used by the DXBUpdater.
73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Neal Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jack > > The ARRL has assigned their ARRLID's for the countries as well as defined > the official 'LoTW' name. I am sure that eQSL will/is follow the League on > that front, so if prefixes are mainly for award/country tracking, the > governing body seems to be the ARRL and they have spoken. > > I don't think the ITU will meet until January where the governmental > 'prefix' is assigned and I understand they will have to be approved by the > assembly so we will be without that info for a few more months. > > The League has officially recognized the recent spurt of 'dxpeditions' to > the 4 new countries with the caveat that LoTW will not be updated until the > beginning of 2011 so it cannot give you credit for these qsos until that > date. > > The ADIF standard committee (of which I am now the secretary) has approved > version 2.2.7 of the standard which includes the new entities. AD1C has > published new CTY.DAT, WLCTY.DAT and WT-CTY.DAT files recognizing the new > prefixes (and known callsigns) as well as the official 'LoTW' names. > > I am in the final stages of the DXBUpdater and will hopefully be delivering > it to the volunteered beta testers Wednesday. I obviously am a slow > programmer but it will be a pretty complete tool. It will: > - review all of the existing entries in the PREFIX-Pri table to make sure > its in alignment with all entities; > - will give the user the option to retain current records or align with the > data in DXBUpdater > - if you are connected to the internet, it will (with the users permission) > download the latest data files from www.clublog.org and use that file as a > standard for updating Prefix Mapping and Callsign Mapping, again with the > user in control as to whether to accept any change from DXBUpdater or to > ignore them. It will also download the latest data for the PREFIX-Pri table > from www.abrohamnealsoftware.com and use that for applying dxcc entity > changes > - in short, it verifies you are running with the latest information > available. > > Users should save the DXBUpdater as it can be used anytime to ensure/update > your databases and logs are always up to date. > > I hope you will appreciate these features and understand why it takes a > little time (plus, you know I am a very slow programmer!) > > 73 > > I will send a note on the list when more is known about > Neal Campbell > Abroham Neal Software > www.abrohamnealsoftware.com > (540) 645 5394 > > > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Jack <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So, with the contest coming up this weekend, I'm wondering if anyone "in >> the >> know" has come up with any "official" info about the prefixes that each of >> the four new countries will be using? >> >> I'm not asking about the ability to put new prefix designations in DXbase. >> Rather, I'm wondering about the ability to recognize from a spotted >> callsign, what country that callsign represents. For example PJ2 = xyz, >> PJ4 >> = abc, PJx = ??? Or is the case for example that a PJ2 could be in any of >> several of the new ones? >> >> I've not found any info on the topic and a google search for ITU >> assignments >> doesn't show any updates. Are we left with no ability to know from a >> callsign, what country that is? >> >> Thanks, >> Jack >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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
