[Dxbase] Suggestion

Wed Jan 4 11:06:09 EST 2006

AL,
Since the IOTA (RSGB) column is keyed-to the RSGB's own
way of setting-up the islands (GROUPS) - then the IOTA
column and the NAMES for each IOTA ref number is setup
accordingly - to stay within the scheme of the RSGB's
naming standard.
The RSGB went to GROUPS because there are just "way too many"
individual islands for them to handle. With that said - then
since the RSGB stays only with GROUPS of islands, DXbase would
follow "that" standard - that makes sense. If you wanted to
reflect the individual island name that you worked, you can
place that info in the Notes field of your logbook and you
can search of that Notes field all ok..
73 Joe wa6axe
Al Bailey wrote:
> Another suggestion for the next release is an additional field for 
> ISLAND NAMES. I would estimate the field would have to be about 30 
> character to facilitate all the long names. Also it would have to be a 
> field we can search on.
>> Why the need for this ? Simply put, the RSGB from time to time will 
> delete a particular island within a IOTA group. Once they do this we 
> need to come up with a replacement OR work a station on one of the other 
> VALID islands. There is a good possibility however that we already have 
> one but short of searching through all our cards there is no way of 
> knowing.
>> If we were to add this feature we could log the Island Names and once 
> one is deleted we could easily search for a replacement if we are lucky 
> enough to have one.
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