[Dxspider-support] N8S

[Dirk Koopman]

Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> --- Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> However, sticking N8S on Swains Island has finally, and irrevocably, 
>> broken my prefix system. Doing a sh/pre on N8SBB (for example) will put 
>> them on Swains Island (together with N8S<anything>). Thanks a bunch, FCC.
>>
>> The Prefix system has been creaking at the seams for a while. I suppose 
>> this must be the straw that breaks it. Ho Hum.
> 
> Hi Dirk,
> 
> There is a protocol for differentiating prefixes from callsigns.  I can send
> you a wl_cty.dat with all callsigns prefixed by "=" (i.e. =N8S).  That way you
> can tell the difference.  You'll probably have to re-write your Perl parser. 
> It's possible I could do the same thing for WPXLOC.RAW but I have to look to
> see how much work that is.
> 

The problem is not the distinguishing in the input data part (as such), 
the actual way that I turn a callsign into a prefix, at runtime, is 
broken because it depends on people not moving a geographical prefix out 
of area.

I need to be cleverer at dealing with this. Period.

Dirk