diff --git a/hamdb b/hamdb
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 6c19d18..9f62bfa
--- a/hamdb
+++ b/hamdb
@@ -56,17 +56,17 @@ WGET_HEADER="Accept: text/html"
 WGET_USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)"
 
 # if today is Monday, get the full file, otherwise get a smaller daily update file
-if [ ${DAY} == sun ]; then
+if [ "${DAY}" == sun ]; then
   FULLIMPORT=1
 else
   FULLIMPORT=0
 fi
 
-if [ ${1} == full ]; then
+if [ "${1}" == "full" ]; then
   FULLIMPORT=1
 fi
 
-if [ ${1} == getfccfile ]; then
+if [ "${1}" == "getfccfile" ]; then
   FULLIMPORT=1
 fi