Hi Joe
Thanks for your constant support of DXbase, keeping us all straight!
That whole area of M* of callsigns is a mess in the default DXbase data
base. It dates back to when Jack was running DXbase and I think he was
given some bad advice by someone as many of the UK calls (G*, M*, 2*) were
very wrongly mapped. I wrote to him about it way back but nothing happened.
I guess living in UK my information didn't count :-)
Once you have added MA0 if you look in the body of the "Alias mapping" tab
MA5 maps to GI - WRONG, its GM
MA6 maps to GD - WRONG, Its GM
MA7 maps to GJ - WRONG, its GM
MA8 maps to GU - Wrong, its GM
MA1 is missing, should be GM
GA also maps to G - WRONG, its GM
(a "9" in any UK prefix (G9, M9) for ham radio has never existed)
ALL MA (and GA, 2A) prefixes are in SCOTLAND (GM, MM, 2M). Alba is an
ancient name for Scotland and this year 2014 is the "homecoming year", hence
the special call for Scottish residents only
The whole mess is repeated in MB*
Hopefully the "new" DXbase will use the Clublog database for callsign
mapping
73 Fred
G4BWP - A65BD
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Glockner
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 1:06 AM
To: dxbase@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Dxbase] Update to the Refdata (Alias Map table)
Recently two DXbase users gave me a heads-up on the
callsign MA0XAU .. (Scotland - GM)
ClubLog maps this MA0 prefix to Scotland .. and doing
a search of the Spots for MA0 - they show Scotland also..
So, since this callsign produces NO Prefix - if you log
it right now ...
You can setup the MA0 prefix to now log as GM by:
Go to Main Menu Tools/ Database Access/ Country prefixes...
When the window comes up -- go to the Alias Map TAB and
scrolldown to the bottom of that tables -- enter the following:
Map Prefix MA0
Pri Prefix GM
Next - save this entry by putting your mouse curser into the
next (Blank) row.
73 Joe wa6axe
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