[Dxbase] DXB & New callsign

Sun Nov 29 10:50:14 EST 2009

Hi all
I just joined the reflector hoping for help with this topic. I got DXB back
in 2006, as following a brain injury I could no longer remember what
countries I still needed on 6m, which was my primary band of operation. I
also migrated all of my paper logs for 160 contacts with the help of a
friend locally who sat with me through all of the laborious input to ensure
I did it right. Another ham locally had DXB, and I relied on him for help
and support, which he gave freely. However, he's now left the UK for work
and I have got stuck with a problem on callsign change. Ken, G8VR as he was
passed earlier this year and left his callsign to me. I was honoured that he
would leave me that call, but it's proving a headache as far as the use of
DXB is concerned. I want to be able to migrate the database from my old call
G0LCS into the new database as G8VR, but the difficulty is that at a certain
date I was one call and later I was another. I want DXB to be able to
recognise I am the same person and tell me what I still need DXCC wise,
whilst continuing to add new ones worked to my score as the now G8VR. I hope
I am making myself clear. So far I have a DXB log as G0LCS and I've created
another as G8VR, but the only way I can know what I have and have not worked
is to print a paper assesment whilst looking at my G0LCS log. All of the
cluster alerts are wrong when I operate DXB as G8VR, as of course it thinks
I have not worked anything! Can anyone help with this? I don't mind buying a
new version of DXB, it's just I need it to work for me! 73's Kerry - G8VR
(prev G0LCS)