Reported with a Logger32 export: the record said <DXCC:3>151 and OpsLog
stored 54.
cty.dat answers one question — where is this callsign TODAY — and that is
the wrong question for a log. R1MVI was Malyj Vysotskij Island, entity
151, until the ARRL deleted it in 2012; the same call resolves to European
Russia today. Forcing the lookup onto a 2004 contact therefore destroys a
credit that can NEVER be worked again, because the place no longer counts.
So the ADIF's number wins whenever it names a deleted entity, and nothing
is corrected on those records at all — the country name and the zones of a
deleted entity are equally beyond what a present-day prefix table knows.
The list is the ADIF specification's own enumeration, sixty-odd entities
that only change when the ARRL deletes another one.
The guard sits in the forced path, so it also covers the grid's 'Update
from cty.dat' on a selection — the other way an operator could have lost
the same credits, one right-click at a time.
rouggy
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