[Dxspider-support] DXSpider Enhancements

[Dirk Koopman]

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 03:30 -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:39:55AM +0000, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> > 
> > Now would be a good time to make your suggestions for improvements and
> > to tell me about those annoying problems that I haven't fixed yet.
> 
> The old problem about distinguishing between V6 and T8 is still there 
> (it works correctly for sh/dx):
> 
> sh/dxcc v6
> Prefix: V6 Dxcc: 104 (Fed-Micronesia-V6)
>            Dxcc: 104 (Fed-Mic-V6-East)
>   7000.3  T8DU        27-Nov-2004 2318Z                               <N3GNW>
>  21230.0  V63ME       27-Nov-2004 2130Z                               <VY0PW>
>  28046.5  T8VA        27-Nov-2004 1938Z  TOO QUICK FOR MY EARS        <PY2XC>
>  28037.7  V6DDT       27-Nov-2004 1909Z                                <W2FU>
>  21240.0  V63ME       26-Nov-2004 2148Z  Beaming  NA via 7N1RTO      <JH7RTQ>
>  21224.9  V63ME       26-Nov-2004 0606Z  qsl via 7N1RTO              <JF1IXE>
>  21225.0  V63ME       24-Nov-2004 2145Z  IOTA OC-010                   <N6KZ>
>  21225.0  V63ME       24-Nov-2004 2141Z  endo san via 7N1RTO         <JA1FBD>
>  21225.0  V63ME       24-Nov-2004 2142Z  QSL VIA 7N1RTO                <W6VA>
>  21225.0  V63ME       24-Nov-2004 2141Z  Endo san qsl via 7n1rto     <JA1BOQ>
> 
> sh/dxcc t8
> Prefix: T8 Dxcc: 104 (Palau-Is-T8)
>   7000.3  T8DU        27-Nov-2004 2318Z                               <N3GNW>
>  21230.0  V63ME       27-Nov-2004 2130Z                               <VY0PW>
>  28046.5  T8VA        27-Nov-2004 1938Z  TOO QUICK FOR MY EARS        <PY2XC>
>  28037.7  V6DDT       27-Nov-2004 1909Z                                <W2FU>
>  21240.0  V63ME       26-Nov-2004 2148Z  Beaming  NA via 7N1RTO      <JH7RTQ>
>  21224.9  V63ME       26-Nov-2004 0606Z  qsl via 7N1RTO              <JF1IXE>
>  21225.0  V63ME       24-Nov-2004 2145Z  IOTA OC-010                   <N6KZ>
>  21225.0  V63ME       24-Nov-2004 2141Z  endo san via 7N1RTO         <JA1FBD>
>  21225.0  V63ME       24-Nov-2004 2142Z  QSL VIA 7N1RTO                <W6VA>
>  21225.0  V63ME       24-Nov-2004 2141Z  Endo san qsl via 7n1rto     <JA1BOQ>
> 
> 
> I think this is because they both show up as 104 in wpxloc.raw.  Is this 
> an error?

It certainly looks that way to me. It is easily fixed for the future by
giving one or the other a new country number; this does not fix
historical data. That would need a program to go through and renumber
everything. Oh for the "speed" and flexibility of a fully normalised
relation database :-)!

I notice that T88 in wpxloc.raw is also called "West-Carolines-T88" with
a dxcc of 104. This, together with T8 being "Palau-Is-T8" with a
different timezone althoigh not being that far away is confusing to
someone as ignorant about DXing as me.

The more I stare at wpxloc.raw, the less I like it. However, there is
useful information gathered there that doesn't exist in cty.dat. 

I think what I need is a master list of DXCC entities with canonical
prefix and then add stuff to that. But I am still consulting experts and
thinking about it.

Dirk G1TLH