[Dxbase] Correcting Prefix

Mon Jan 22 19:58:49 EST 2007

John
After you get the error message, simply click on the OK button
Now delete the state you entered in the state field
Now cursor to the Prefix field and change the EA to K
Now go back and enter the State abreviation.
I changed my QSO log fields so the Prefix field and then the WPX (worked 
Prefix) fields where adjacent to the State, County fields so they would be 
easily accessed just for this situation.
I am a 60 wpm touch typist, and a 59 wpm mistake typist...so I learned this 
workaround a long time ago.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John W. Benedict" <john at ke5rs.com>
To: <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 6:38 PM
Subject: [Dxbase] Correcting Prefix
> Hello Group
> A problem I have every now and them. I enter a call example 'EA3ABC 
> Spain'
> into the log and tab to the next column. I find that I did not get the 
> call
> right (typo or copied the call wrong in CW) so I click back and change the
> 'E' to a 'W' in the call. Now I try to enter the state but the prefix
> column is telling me "Can not enter a state if the prefix is not USA"
> I am trying to get in the habit to just hit escape if I get the call wrong
> and start all over but sometimes I have already entered the signal report,
> the guy's name and so forth and don't like having to enter all that again.
> I have also entered part of a call while coping CW and tab over to get his
> name and then back to get the rest of the call or correct it. This also
> gets me bad prefixes. Perhaps it is a discipline thing where I need to
> learn to get the entire call right before tabbing out of the field.
>> Maybe the next release of DXBase the auto entry fields are re-populated
> anytime the cursor leaves the call field.
>> Thanks for reading :-)
> John W. Benedict de KE5RS
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