[Dxbase] Update to the Refdata (Alias Map table)

Fri Oct 31 07:40:47 EDT 2014

Hi Neal
Yes absolutely!
I know the people involved personally and very well, and all they want is perfection. I have been a user since it was launched and have used it to “clean up” my DXbase logs
I have been pretty proactive with my DXbase databases along with Joe’s input to keep them as up to date as possible
I have been back entering my old paper logs going back to 1978 at the moment. In fact there is an old bug in DXbase as when you import old logs from ADIF it never checks the start/end date windows in its own files for old calls as the data is imported and maps everything as if it were “today”. Pushing that back to Clublog then gets me a few pages of errors in call mapping. I use that to manually clean up DXbase, but when I look many of the mappings are actually there, but not used during an ADIF import.
My method is
Type into Fast Log Entry to make an ADIF
Import to DXbase
Export from DXbase again in ADIF
Load to Clublog (and LOTW)
Manually enter corrections and exceptions in DXbase
Very, very occasionally (like 1 in 3000 QSOs, which is a typical UK paper log book) if find a call which is not mapped in CL but I have written notes in my log about the QSO. Then I email Alan to have a look into it.
73 Fred
From: Neal Campbell 
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 3:27 PM
To: Fred Handscombe 
Cc: wa6axe at verizon.net ; DXBase List 
Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Update to the Refdata (Alias Map table)
Fred 
Do you trust the Clublog database more than DXBases? Its a serious question, I can make it so we periodically import the database and use it, but when I did it the first time there were more than a few "disagreements" with its settings. I enthusiastically support Clublog, they seem to be the only people working on "getting it right" but just wanted your opinion!
73
BOO! BIG HALLOWEN SALE IN PROGRESS!
Neal Campbell
Abroham Neal LLC
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 1:11 AM, Fred Handscombe <fredch57 at emirates.net.ae> wrote:
 Hi Joe
 Thanks for your constant support of DXbase, keeping us all straight!
 That whole area of M* of callsigns is a mess in the default DXbase data base. It dates back to when Jack was running DXbase and I think he was given some bad advice by someone as many of the UK calls (G*, M*, 2*) were very wrongly mapped. I wrote to him about it way back but nothing happened. I guess living in UK my information didn't count :-)
 Once you have added MA0 if you look in the body of the "Alias mapping" tab
 MA5 maps to GI - WRONG, its GM
 MA6 maps to GD - WRONG, Its GM
 MA7 maps to GJ - WRONG, its GM
 MA8 maps to GU - Wrong, its GM
 MA1 is missing, should be GM
 GA also maps to G - WRONG, its GM
 (a "9" in any UK prefix (G9, M9) for ham radio has never existed)
 ALL MA (and GA, 2A) prefixes are in SCOTLAND (GM, MM, 2M). Alba is an ancient name for Scotland and this year 2014 is the "homecoming year", hence the special call for Scottish residents only
 The whole mess is repeated in MB*
 Hopefully the "new" DXbase will use the Clublog database for callsign mapping
 73 Fred
 G4BWP - A65BD
 -----Original Message----- From: Joe Glockner
 Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 1:06 AM
 To: dxbase at mailman.qth.net
 Subject: [Dxbase] Update to the Refdata (Alias Map table) 
 Recently two DXbase users gave me a heads-up on the
 callsign MA0XAU .. (Scotland - GM)
 ClubLog maps this MA0 prefix to Scotland .. and doing
 a search of the Spots for MA0 - they show Scotland also..
 So, since this callsign produces NO Prefix - if you log
 it right now ...
 You can setup the MA0 prefix to now log as GM by:
 Go to Main Menu Tools/ Database Access/ Country prefixes...
 When the window comes up -- go to the Alias Map TAB and
 scrolldown to the bottom of that tables -- enter the following:
 Map Prefix MA0
 Pri Prefix GM
 Next - save this entry by putting your mouse curser into the
 next (Blank) row.
 73 Joe wa6axe
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