I believe this was a 'special event' call. I saw it come over the cluster also.
Lately some of the special events have taken to "poetic licensing" in regards to suffix additions. You just got to listen to what he's selling to figure out what's going on. He might have been paddling around the island in a 'Dugout' canoe. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raymond W. Brann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "DXBase" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 9:46 PM Subject: Re: [DXBase] Doesn't like Callsign > Hi Agn Jack, I don't know abt the "/D" either. > I removed it from the call sign to get DX_'02 to accept it. > Sorry I didn't mention it sooner. > Wonder what the heck the "/D" is for? > Info I have found: > "Trinidad Island ~ SAØ21 ~ Lat 39ºS Long 62ºW ~ CQ Zone 13" > Still don't know abt the "/D" > Oh well > Tnx > Ray > > > > Jack wrote: > > > Ray, > > > > Is there more to this than what you've told me? In my version of DXbase > > 2002, I cannot log this callsign to start with because DXbase does not > > automatically select the country prefix. It doesn't know about the /D. > > Therefore the prefix field is blank and I get an error that the CQ zone > > field is blank. I guess you could have forced it into the database by > > filling in the missing fields it complained about, but I don't really know > > how you got it logged in the first place. > > > > In any case, the error means that you have a QSO record with a prefix field > > containing a single D. And, this D is not a valid prefix in the statistics > > table ( as it shouldn't be ). The cure is to delete that QSO and reenter > > it. In the prefix field, select the correct prefix, zones, etc... You may > > want to just add a callsign mapping record for this call first so that when > > you log the QSO, DXbase will automatically recognize what it is. > > > > Regards, > > Sandy > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Raymond W. Brann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "DXBase" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 4:31 PM > > Subject: [DXBase] Doesn't like Callsign > > > > > Hi, I just worked "LU8DWR/D" and DX-Base '02 apparently doesn't like > > > this call. > > > Got this error message: > > > > > > "The record <D> could not be found in the DXCC numeric statistics table. > > > > > > Updates to this label will now be aborted. Correct your Database and > > > Initialize Tables when repaired." > > > > > > How to fix?? > > > > > > Thanks very much > > > Ray > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > > > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > > > > _______________________________________________ > > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > > _______________________________________________ > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > >
