Joe No problem, you are the one doing all the hard work
I had an email form someone else about MB MB is a VERY rarely used prefix and, like GB, could be anywhere in UK (G GI GU GJ GW GM or G) I would say delete all the MB mappings and worry if one is ever active 73 Fred From: Joe Glockner Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 6:16 PM To: [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] Subject: Re: Re: [Dxbase] Update to the Refdata (Alias Map table) GM fred, I saw that discrepancy and was reading the RSGB webpages to find out what was the real mapping ... Now that we have this info (from you) - I will update my Refdata.mdb file to read as per your guidance. Tnx agn Fred! 73 Joe wa6axe On 10/31/14, Fred Handscombe<[email protected]> 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: [email protected] 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 ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
