[Dxbase] RE: KC6 Prefex Problem

Thu Sep 16 08:25:13 EDT 2004

At 06:53 AM 9/16/2004 -0500, FireBrick wrote:
>Jim
>It's not that there are two different programs. It's that there are many
different users 
>who have worked many different stations that had many different prefixes.
>>If you entered a KC6 with a date of before 1990 (I think that's it), then
it would be the 
>islands previously known as the Carolines.
>They are now known as V6, Micronesia ECI
>Try it, just enter V6 into the call field.
>>So then the KC6 prefix reverted back to California after that date.
>So now if you enter KC6P, it will come up as an California ham.
>>But possibly you mapped something to one of the Micronesian islands with
that call 
>previously.
>Possibly this happened when importing from a different program or even
accidentally.
>>Just go into the Tools, Database Access, Country Prefixes and do searches,
I bet you will 
>find it.

Actually, I just did this. I find lots of call mappings for individual KC6
calls mapped to K, T8 or V6. There were Western (before 1994) and Eastern
Carolines (before 1986). I'm not about to try and reload DXBase to see
whether these came with the new database or are mappings that I have done
over the years.
I don't think I did them since I have a DXCC credit for KC6DC which counts
for T8 and one for KC6MM which is now V6 and I just changed the prefix in
the log and didn't do any mappings in the prefix databases. I also opened
the reference database for DXB2003 and these same individual mappings are
there too.
There is an alias map of KC6C to T8 without a date. I don't know whether
the FCC has avoided issuing KC6C calls; if not then this mapping is wrong.
Wes