I posted this yesterday, but it never made it to the reflector. This is
a repeat posting:
In contests there are often situations where one prefix includes two
DXCC countries. In last week's CQWW there were two stations in North
Cooks. AD1C makes the default South Cooks for ZK1. For North Cooks he
put in individual calls, which will direct the program to properly
recognize them in North Cooks. When you work these new calls, not
already in the database, you can use the C country field to correct it
for that particular log entry. However, when you work him again on a
different band you must correct it again. If you alter the database
instead, by adding these calls, the program gets it right.
It was necessary to add the calls (ZK1NDK,ZK1NJC) to the wl_cty.dat file
first, then run the conversion program Reacty32.exe. Now WriteLog will
recognize those calls in any contest as being in North Cooks.
The first time I tried it when adding to wl_cty.dat I added those calls
at the end of the string under North Cooks. It didn't work. Finally, I
put them in at the middle, alphabetically. For some reason that made
the difference, though I didn't think it mattered. The calls are all
separated by commas, no spaces, with a semicolon at the end.
73, Jim
W6YA
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