[Dxspider-support] badnode filtering

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Dirk Koopman G1TLH
<gb7tlh at dxcluster.org> wrote:

> Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>>
>> On 11/14/2009 4:53 AM, Dirk Koopman G1TLH wrote:
>>
>>> You may also find that a 'rej/spot node_default call_dxcc 666 or by_dxcc
>>> 666' useful. This should remove all spots by countries that it doesn't
>>> recognise - HOWEVER - this may remove some actual DX (usually of the
>>> commemorative callsign type).
>>
>> I would suggest NOT doing this.  Many TO and TX callsigns are added to the
>> country file "after the fact".  Let the user's logging program figure these
>> out, there is no need to block them at the cluster node.
>>
>
> Yes, but they are not treated as "pirate countries". They may be wrongly
> attributed, but not "pirate" as far as the spot system is concerned.
> Contrast:
>
> sh/pre TO TX

Those are not considered "unknown prefixes" in DX Spider because of
the WPXLOC.RAW file.  They are NOT listed in CTY.DAT or WL_CTY.DAT or
ARRL.CTY, which is used by other clusters, so on those clusters, they
might be.

73 - Jim AD1C

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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us