<div dir="ltr">What's the difference in file storage needed for either?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Howard Leadmon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:howard@leadmon.net" target="_blank">howard@leadmon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I tried it here as well, and it says it loaded in without error.   I only<br>
saw the zip version of the file, so extracted it from that, so assume that<br>
was the correct approach.<br>
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73's..<br>
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Howard Leadmon - WB3FFV<br>
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> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: Dxspider-support [mailto:<a href="mailto:dxspider-support-bounces@dxcluster.org">dxspider-support-<wbr>bounces@dxcluster.org</a>]<br>
> On Behalf Of Dirk Koopman<br>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 1:58 PM<br>
> To: The DXSpider Support list <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@dxcluster.org">dxspider-support@dxcluster.<wbr>org</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Does updating DXSpider over-write pre-<br>
> existing CTY files?<br>
><br>
> It appears to. I could start distributing that rather than the smaller one.<br>
><br>
> Dirk G1TLH<br>
><br>
> On 16/08/16 17:39, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:<br>
> > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Dirk Koopman wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> >> Also, while cty has some specific info on individual callsigns of<br>
> >> interest, these are pruned regularly and so it may be that the<br>
> >> historical record contained in the spots can't be matched up with the<br>
> >> current cty data. Indeed there are countries and/or in my spot<br>
> >> records going back  to 1997 that don't exist any more.<br>
> > Has anyone tried using the "big" cty.dat with DX Spider?<br>
> ><br>
> >      <a href="http://www.country-files.com/big-cty/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.country-files.com/<wbr>big-cty/</a><br>
> ><br>
> > This might help with those expired callsigns.  The callsign data goes<br>
> > back to 2000, though my original intent was to only be current for the<br>
> > last 10 years, to try to keep the size of the file manageable.<br>
> ><br>
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