[Dxspider-support] sh/dx and sh/dxcc

Dirk Koopman djk at tobit.co.uk
Tue Nov 20 20:47:06 GMT 2001


Ages ago I thought it would be a good idea to have a command which
allowed one to search the dx database by country, regardless of actual
prefix. The idea being that W and K plus all their variants are actually
the same country really and coping with all the possibilities was quite
difficult.

So I invented sh/dxcc which is like sh/dx but the output is different
(and potentially more useful), viz:

sh/dxcc w on 6m
Prefix: W Dxcc: 226 (United-States-W)

 50160.0  WA2BHJ/6    20-Nov-2001 2014Z  CM87>FM29 F2                <WA3WUL>
 50098.9  N6CMF       20-Nov-2001 2014Z  599 in alaska                 <WL7M>
 50069.0  K6FV/B      20-Nov-2001 1951Z  CM87 > FN44VG                <K1TOL>
 50095.1  W3JO        20-Nov-2001 1951Z  CQ DX                         <KU6J>
 50092.0  WA3WUL      20-Nov-2001 1950Z  CM99>FM29 CQ                  <KU6J>
 50075.0  KA7BGR      20-Nov-2001 1926Z  CN82>FM29 F2 beacon         <WA3WUL>
 50110.0  A1AAA       20-Nov-2001 1923Z  TEST                        <KE6WOX>
 50067.7  K6FV/B      20-Nov-2001 1917Z  CM87 > FN44EI                 <N1RZ>
 50125.0  N9JIM/6     20-Nov-2001 1911Z  CM87 > FN44EI                 <N1RZ>
 50174.8  W1LP        20-Nov-2001 1910Z  fn41                        <KB6NAN>
G1TLH de GB7DJK 20-Nov-2001 2030Z >
sh/dx w on 6m
 50160.0  WA2BHJ/6    20-Nov-2001 2014Z  CM87>FM29 F2                <WA3WUL>
 50029.0  WL7M        20-Nov-2001 2013Z  Looking 4 you maybe later   <TG9AJR>
 50095.1  W3JO        20-Nov-2001 1951Z  CQ DX                         <KU6J>
 50092.0  WA3WUL      20-Nov-2001 1950Z  CM99>FM29 CQ                  <KU6J>
 50174.8  W1LP        20-Nov-2001 1910Z  fn41                        <KB6NAN>
 50110.0  W1RA/B      20-Nov-2001 1745Z  FN41 > CN84LV                 <W7EW>
 50092.0  W2QE        20-Nov-2001 1734Z  cm99>fn29                     <KU6J>
 50135.0  W6RXQ       20-Nov-2001 1723Z  CM87                        <VA3EBM>
 50070.0  W1RA/B      20-Nov-2001 1719Z  CM99>FN41                     <KU6J>
 50135.0  W7IXA       20-Nov-2001 1717Z  dm43                        <VA3EBM>

As you can see there is different output.

My question is this: is there any need for a different command given
that I can now tell, reasonably reliably, the difference between a
callsign and a prefix (and can include syntax like 'W*' to mean W only).
What would be the consequences of me amalgamating these two commands (as
an aside, I see little evidence of anyone actually using sh/dxcc here).

So that sh/dx w means sh/dx w,k,etc etc
sh/dx w* means only prefix w

Comments?

Dirk G1TLH




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