Hello all,
I feel I need to mention a couple of important things to everyone about
adding Ducie to the country database. It seems most people are making it
much harder than it needs to be.
The procedure is covered in plenty of detail in the users guide. EVERYONE
should have a users guide. It is installed as a file along with the
program, so you can print it out. If you can't or won't print it BUY it
from me. Having originally spent the time to enter it here, I find that
lots of you would like me to type it all out again in private Emails, which
I really would like to avoid. If you have tried and can't get it right, by
all means, contact me and describe your problem and we can get it corrected.
Most of the problems you all are having is caused by not choosing 'update'
after you add information to a specific area of the country editor. If you
want to add an new country, choose 'country | add' from the top and enter
all the needed information. When you are done, choose 'country | UPDATE',
in order to save what you have just done.
Because Ducie does not have a unique prefix, but shares one with Pitcairn,
don't try to enter anything under 'mapping'. This describes the start/stop
date for unique prefixes used by a country.
'Callsigns' is for callsign exceptions. You can enter the information
here, as long as you are here, or you can do it from the QSO window.
If you do it from the QSO window, when you enter VP6DI it will show
Pitcairn. Go to the 'prefix' field and press 'F1'. Locate 'Ducie' and
double click on it. Finish the contact if a new one or press 'F10' to
update if it's an old one.
You have just created a callsign exception record which is the same as if
you had done it from the country editor.
I mean no disrespect to anyone in my above comments.
73 de Steve, NR4M
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-Steve Bookout, NR4M (ex NJ4F)
Rapidan Data Systems
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