[Dxspider-support] WPX Database Updates

[Bob Nielsen]

It looks like getting it added to DXCC may be a long fight.

<http://www.arrl.org/announce/American-Samoa/>

Bob, N7XY

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 06:22:05PM +0000, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 07:10 +0000, Klaus Heintzenberg wrote:
> > Hallo!
> > 
> > Here is a prefix update. Please update the database
> > 
> > KH8SI =  Swains Island  (NEW DXCC Entity)
> > 
> > See: http://www.swains-island.org/
> 
> Well. I have put the new entity in but it appears that they are using
> their club callsign:-
> 
> sh/qrz kh8si
> 
>      Name: AMERICAN SAMOA AMATEUR RADIO ASSOCIATION
>      Addr1: PO BOX 1618
>      Addr2: PAGO PAGO, AS 967991618
>    Country: USA
>      Class: Club    Codes: HVBF
>     Issued: 2004-04-28    Exp: 2014-04-28
> 
> So picking it up correctly is going to be a bit of a problem. I have, as
> a (probably) temporary measure allocated KH8S* as Swains Island which I
> have defined as KH8/S in wpxloc.raw.
> 
> > 
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > 
> > TO4Gxx for Glorioso
> > 
> 
> Done.
> 
> I have also put in a probable fix for all these duplicate spots, with
> rewritten times, that have been going around for the last day or so. We
> have not yet found the source of these, but I think I have stopped them
> bothering us. But I am monitoring the situation 'cos I have not seen
> that many of them. 
> 
> The situation now is that time of spot is not taken into account at all
> for duping purposes. A spotter now has to either change the frequency or
> the comment within any one hour period to get another spot for a
> particular callsign on the system. This is potentially configurable but,
> in some ways, is less drastic than the old system which seems to have
> only allowed one go in three hours whether you change the comment or
> not.
> 
> Another side benefit is that there is less processing involved now as
> well. 
> 
> Dirk