Re: [Xlog-discussion] How can I see and edit country information

[Jan Ditzian]

On 12/29/2009 03:05 PM, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote:
> > > > > > "Jan" == Jan Ditzian<address@hidden>  writes:
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>      Jan>  I do not know how to fix the "unknown" countries in my log.
>      Jan>  I know the countries, but xlog does not.  How can I see and
>      Jan>  edit the country data for a qso?
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> Besides getting an update cty.dat file as others suggested, you can
> force any log entry to match another country by adding "DXCC-xx" to
> the awards field, where xx is the usual prefix of the correct
> country.
> For example, I worked a special call from Scotland, GA6something, and
> xlog knew it as England, I addedd DXCC-GM in the awards field and
> that's it. Getting an update cty.dat will of course be a more
> clean solution.
>
> Pf
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Pf,

Thank you for this information.  I tried it and it works pretty well, 
aside from not clearing the contacts from the Unknown search.

Jan, KX2A