[Dxspider-support] usdbraw.gz

[Dirk Koopman]

On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 04:00 +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 22:46 -0400, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> > Pardon me for being thick...
> > 
> > I installed the database.
> > 
> > sh/usdb ad1c shows my QTH
> > 
> > sh/dx by_state il returns nothing
> > 
> > Is there something else I have to do?
> > 
> > I'm running build 59.374 on Windows XP using ActiveState Perl
> 
> sh/dx by_state il
>  14023.4  UN7QX        3-Jun-2005 0215Z                                <K9EL>
>  14020.8  CP4BT        3-Jun-2005 0126Z                               <W9ZJX>
>  18160.0  TI8CBT       3-Jun-2005 0045Z                                <N9FV>
>  14007.8  PZ5RA        2-Jun-2005 2346Z                               <K9DDO>
>  21071.4  PY7MG        2-Jun-2005 1837Z  PSK31                         <W9OL>
>  21071.4  CX3AAM       2-Jun-2005 1811Z  PSK31                         <W9OL>
>  24950.0  LU1ECZ       2-Jun-2005 1719Z  Angel                        <K9DXR>
>  50125.0  W1GUD        2-Jun-2005 1346Z  EN41 > EL87                  <K2DRH>
>  14239.0  S79CQ        2-Jun-2005 1225Z  Net                          <K9DXR>
>  14202.9  LY2CX        2-Jun-2005 0429Z                                <WK8A>
> 
> Works for me...

And the reason probably is that installing usdb.gz does not give you
data that you didn't have before. For reasons of speed, the spot data
retains the state info at the time of spotting. If there was no state
info (because there was no usdb) then there is no stored state info so
'by_state il' won't work for that data.

However, as time passes, you will see stuff like above.

Dirk