[Dxbase] Manual updates for the Z8 (South Sudan) prefix - Joe wa6axe‏‏‏

Wed Mar 21 18:33:38 EDT 2012

T.L. and all DXbase users:
This is the best offer I can make for a step-by-step guide to making the Z8 updates:
(1) Open DXbase program -- go to Main Menu / Tools/ Database Access / Country Prefixes ...
(2) In the "Primary" TAB - scrolldown to the bottom of that window and ENTER the following
in a new line (entry):
Prefix = Z8
Country = Rep of South Sudan
LAT = +4.86
LON = -31.6
Deleted = NO CHECKMARK
Field Check = YES - make a CHECKMARK
Bureau = NO CHECKMARK
CQ = 34
ITU = 48
ARRL-ID = (leave BLANK for NOW) - this is important and you MUST come back to this later.
Continent = AF
TZDIFF = +0300
(3) Now, EXIT (X) the Prefix Databases window - so that the new entry will be written and saved and
the database updated.
(4) Now - go to ANY of your ST0R (South Sudan DXped callsign) QSOs in your QSO Logbook window,
and manually CHANGE the Prefix column to read now as: Z8
(5) Go again to Main Menu / Tools/ Database Access / Country Prefixes ... 
and this time open the CALL MAP Tab --- find any entry in that table that you might have made
for the PREVIOUS entry for South Sudan (such as ST0R ST0S) ... if you have made ANY entry
in the Call Map TAB for ST0R then change that entry's Prefix column to now read as: Z8
SO that now the Callsign of ST0R is mapped to Z8 Prefix.
(6) Exit (X) the Prefix Databases window again ...
(7) Go again to Main Menu / Tools/ Database Access / Country Prefixes ... 
and this time open the ALIAS MAP Tab --- find any entry that you might have made
for the PREVIOUS entry for South Sudan (such as ST0S ST0S) .. I will talk now as if
you used the ST0S prefix for the previous prefix for South Sudan ... DELETE any entry/entries
you made in the ALIAS MAP table that have the ST0S in the "Pri Pfx" column -- you will be 
deleting the whole LINE for that entry / entries ..
(8) While still in the Alias Map tab - scrolldown to the bottom of the window and in the
bottom (new line) make the folowing entry:
Map Pfx = Z8
Pri Pfx = Z8
(9) Exit (X) out of this Prefix Databases window ---
(10) Go again to Main Menu / Tools/ Database Access / Country Prefixes ... 
and this time open the Primary Tab -- and this time we will scrolldown in the PRIMARY TAB window
to look for and find the ST0S (or whatever YOU CALLED South Sudan's previous prefix) entry
and DELETE that line completely (Delete Record) ... If DXbase gives you a pop-up warning window
that says that you can NOT do that right now -- that simply is telling you that YOU DID NOT find an delete
all of the previous entries (as we did above) -- so, you must now find the STILL THERE entries ...
Once you CAN DELETE the ST0S (or whatever YOU CALLED South Sudan's previous prefix) entry --
then you now can look for an find the new Z8 entry in this Primary TAB window and look over to the
ARRL-ID column and NOW you MUST type in the
ARRL-ID = 521
(11) Exit (X) the Prefix Databases window ---
(12) Now -- do an "Initialize Tables" --- you should be ALL OK now ...
REMEMBER that there are MANY different techniques/ways to make these manual updates -- the above is 
simply one of those methods ... use the above information as you wish ...
73 Joe wa6axe
To: dxbase at yahoogroups.com
From: flattoplake at yahoo.com
Date: 2012年3月20日 09:58:01 -0700
Subject: Re: [dxbase] Heads-up on upcoming DXped as TO5K (ambiguous prefix) - Joe wa6axe‏‏‏

 Joe,

For those DXBase members who want to update the new Z8 prefix manually, do you have a step-by-step procedure for doing this. In the past, I remember you issuing such a document for other new prefixes. While there is not a great number asking for this, nevertheless I have seen other DXBasers like me asking for such a document in recent weeks.

Let me thank you again for all of the support you provide for DXBase. This database would be stalled in the mud without your help and support.

T.L.

--- On Tue, 3/20/12, Joe WA6AXE <wa6axe at hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Joe WA6AXE <wa6axe at hotmail.com>
Subject: [dxbase] Heads-up on upcoming DXped as TO5K (ambiguous prefix) - Joe wa6axe‏‏‏
To: dxbase at mailman.qth.net, dxbase at yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 11:52 AM

ALL:
Just a heads-up about a callsign that is in the AMBIGUOUS category for Prefixes ...
Just saw that the callsign TO5K will be used from Martinique (NA-107)
from 24-25 March 2012 during the CQ WW WPX SSB contest. This callsign will default 
to France (F) because of the Alias Map table mapping - and, because this 
is one of those Ambiguous prefixes.

This callsign is not currently MAPPED in the CALLMAP table -- so, if you want,
simply make a dummy QSO with this callsign and change the PREFIX column
of your logbook mdb file to FM and then when the pop-up asks you if you want
to save this TO5K mapped to FM -- say YES/OK ---- Then delete that dummy QSO ..

The CALLMAP table will now be updated in advance so that if you work this
station -- it will have the correct PREFIX in your logbook QSO window ...

73 Joe
 wa6axe

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