[Dxspider-support] [quiet announce] US state filtering

Dirk Koopman djk at tobit.co.uk
Mon Oct 14 19:06:58 BST 2002


Bob

I suspect its usefulness is limited to only maybe half of the ~840,000
members of that database :-)

I only serve...

Dirk G1TLH

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 10:23:50 -0700
Bob Nielsen <nielsen at oz.net> wrote:

> Just an observation---
> 
> I installed the usdb stuff and it works fine, but in my case (living
> close to the Canadian border and getting an Internet feed from VE7) I
> find that filtering by zones is probably more practical as a means of
> displaying only those spots where good propagation is likely.  YMMV.
> 
> Bob, N7XY
> 
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 03:16:07PM +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:31:27 +0100
> > Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > In the latest build in CVS I have put in an alpha version of US
> > > State filtering. The build you require is 57.119. 
> > > 
> > > This is not for the faint of heart and if you haven't upgraded
> > > recently, I would hold off upgrading from CVS for a few days
> > > whilst I sort out the mess I have created sticking this in. 
> > > 
> > > That is, unless this is a feature that is important to you *and*
> > > you fancy having a play.
> > > 
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > For those of you who don't want to run the US DB stuff, but have
> > upgraded from CVS in the last day or two, got caught up in the
> > crossfire of development and may now have broken or unreliable
> > systems; I would recommend upgrading to the current CVS build.  This
> > probably only affects anyone with a build between 57.100 - 57.119.
> > 
> > The version there just now seems to be reasonably stable and works
> > fine*without* the US DB stuff loaded. 
> > 
> > Remember, if you *don't* want to do US State filtering, then *don't*
> > load the US DB stuff from the website nor install it.
> > 
> > Dirk G1TLH
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Dxspider-support mailing list
> > Dxspider-support at dxcluster.org
> > http://www.tobit.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dxspider-support
> 
> -- 
> Bob Nielsen, N7XY                          n7xy at n7xy.net
> Bainbridge Island, WA  
> IOTA NA-065, USI WA-028S 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Dxspider-support mailing list
> Dxspider-support at dxcluster.org
> http://www.tobit.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dxspider-support




More information about the Dxspider-support mailing list