ALL DXbase2007 Users: (1) First rule is -- before you do ANY updates, BACKUP your mdb files.. This practice has been advised MANY, MANY TIMES - and, I will advise again to do this!!!!!!
(2) Now - since you accomplished #1 above -- and you find that you made a mistake that you can not figure out what happened -- close-out DXbase and bring back the saved Refdata.mdb file. Now - start over again. (3) Now - If you did not save your Refdata.mdb before starting to make manual updates to your database - you can try this: Close out DXbase and run Joe's Updater - available at: http://www.navycthistory.com/wa6axe/2007chkmdbs.html (4) If #3 can not be done (for whatever reason) - then download a Generic Refdata.mdb file from the DXbase YAHOO GRoup website at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxbase/files/ and do the updates to this Refdata.mdb file (which is from the March 2011 timeframe). (5) If you are still at your wits-end -- wait until Neal brings out Version 1.09 of DXbase2007. NOTE HERE: The technique of doing updates to the Refdata.mdb file are spelled out in the Help Files - and, just after this NOTE, I will give again the info from my REVISED UPDATES email -- PSE be advised that these words I will give are my own and are inclusive enough to get the user going ... there are MANY ways to achieve the same thing -- you will find whatever is comfortable for you ... //revised update info provided again here// For those who want to make the manual addition of the new country/entity - here is what I will be using (if you want to use it also) : Main Menu / Tools/ Database Access / Country Prefixes .../ Primary TAB Scrolldown to the bottom of this window and type-in the following info: Prefix column: ST0S (Sierra Tango ZERO Sierra) Country column: Rep of South Sudan (abbreviated version of Republic of South Sudan) LAT column: +4.86 LON column: -31.6 Deleted column: -- NO Checkmark Field Check column: -- Checkmark Bureau column: -- NO Checkmark CQ column: 34 ITU column: 48 ARRL-ID column: 521 ( *** ARRL has already issued this number for this entity ***) Continent column: AF TZDIFF column: +0300 *** SAVE the entry by clicking-on the entry right above this new entry.. THEN CLOSE the Prefix Databases window to let DXbase recognize this new addition *** *** Now - continue with the following steps by going back into the Prefix Databases *** Main Menu / Tools/ Database Access / Country Prefixes .../ Alias Map TAB Scrolldown to the bottom of this window and type-in the following info: Map PFX: ST0S Pri PFX: ST0S *** SAVE the entry by clicking-on the entry right above this new entry.. *** Main Menu / Tools/ Database Access / Country Prefixes .../ Call Map TAB Scrolldown to the bottom of this window and type-in the following info: Callsign: ST0R Prefix: ST0S *** SAVE the entry by clicking-on the entry right above this new entry.. *** NOTE: These additions are VERY straight-forward. IF the ITU "does" come-out with a brand new prefix for the Republic of South Sudan - we will be able to modify the above without any problems .. This info provided as FYI... //end of info// 73 Joe wa6axe ______________________________________________________________ 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
