[Dxbase] Label Prefix - Why K4A?

Fri Jan 9 12:12:35 EST 2009

Joe,
This still does not explain the discrepancy I am seeing with my labels.
i.e.:
W4CU comes up as prefix K4
W4UCZ comes up as prefix K4A
When I do random selections of callsigns for call area 4 I really don't see
a pattern for the prefixes..
I am now suspecting that the originals prefix rules for '4-land' have
changed since DXbase was first created.<?>
Maybe Jack could weigh in and give us the definitive answer? 
As I said in my original message - it has me baffled!
Eric.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Glockner 
>> Eric,
>> I just noticed that the probable usage of the K4A in the
> PREFIX column of the Labels Pending database was on-purpose..
>> Looking at the USA Bureaus -- the 4-land area is the ONLY
> Bureau area that has TWO addresses ...
>> Here is the listing for 4-land Bureaus:
>>> K4,N4, Mecklenburg Amateur Radio Soc., Box DX, Charlotte, NC 28220
> W4
>> AA-AK4, Sterling Park Amateur Radio Club, Call Box 599, Sterling, VA
> 20167
> KA-KZ4,
> NA-NZ4,
> WA-WZ4
>> All other USA call-areas have just one Bureau address.
>>> 73 Joe wa6axe
>>> ----------------------------------------
> > From: ve3gsi at sympatico.ca
> >
> > Thanks for the explanation Joe.
> > I was beginning to think there was a 'secret handshake' for U.S.
> bureaus.
> >
> > Eric - Ve3gsi
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Joe Glockner
> >>
> >> Eric,
> >>
> >> Since the PREFIX column in the Labels Pending Database
> >> is "hard-coded" within DXbase, I think that only Jack
> >> can answer you question ..
> >>
> >> I see that the K4A (or any other USA call-area) only
> >> comes up when I save a USA call that has "three" letters
> >> after the numerical digit of the callsign ...
> >>
> >> Hard to say without seeing the coding - whether this is
> >> a glitch/bug -- or -- whether it was intentional.
> >>
> >>
> >> 73 Joe wa6axe
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >>> From: ve3gsi
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> There is something I don't understand about Prefix and
> >>> U.S.A. callsigns generated in the label database, this is the
> prefix
> >> that I use
> >>> to sort my cards on before packaging them up for the bureau. I am
> not
> >>> suggesting for an moment DXbase has a problem, it is as an
> outsider,
> >> the
> >>> prefixes used for American calls seem to have some idiosyncrasies
> to
> >> me.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> For example: I printed a QSL cards for W4UCZ
> >>> today, I would have expected the prefix which I sort on would be
> K4,
> >> but
> >>> instead it comes out as K4A. I see this from time to time with
> >> certain calls
> >>> but not all calls. Now if I choose W4CU the prefix information is
> K4
> >> and I see
> >>> no obvious reason as to the difference, how come?
> >>>
> >>> From a baffled Canuck,
> >>> Eric - Ve3gsi
> >
> >