[Dxspider-support] QRZ.PL rewrite

[Keith Le Boutillier]

Hi Leo 

You are right the QRZ XML service dose cost about $29.95, £18.50 or 20.00 Euros per year.

Most of my users would be happy to make a donation to my cluster to use the service but it is yet one more job for us poor sysops to administer.


73 Keith GB7DXG 

-----Original Message-----
From: dxspider-support-bounces at dxcluster.org [mailto:dxspider-support-bounces at dxcluster.org] On Behalf Of IZ5FSA
Sent: 06 September 2009 22:45
To: The DXSpider Support list
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] QRZ.PL rewrite

If you develope a new sh/qrz command with XML features, any sysop have
the choice to subscribe or not to qrz service.

I can ask to my users to offer an euro-cent per year for the poor sysop ;-(

73s de Leo, IZ5FSA



Keith Le Boutillier ha scritto:
> Hi Dirk
>
> I already have a subscription to his XML service so I for one would be interested in the sh/qsl being changed when you have time.
>
> 73 Keith GU6EFB GB7DXG 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dxspider-support-bounces at dxcluster.org [mailto:dxspider-support-bounces at dxcluster.org] On Behalf Of Dirk Koopman G1TLH
> Sent: 06 September 2009 19:46
> To: The DXSpider Support list
> Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] QRZ.PL rewrite
>
> Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>   
>> On 9/6/2009 6:28 AM, Ricardo Suarez wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Good job, but is a secure waste of time, the owner of qrz.com NOT want
>>> us as users, he wants us as readers of commercial announces, non better
>>> demonstration of this the aleatory lines added on the qrz web page. For
>>> this cause I run on my new approach to solve the cluster´s dx 
>>> information.
>>>       
>> Have you looked into the XML lookup?  It requires a username/password, 
>> but you get XML output which can be easily parsed, not ads!
>>
>> 73 - Jim AD1C
>>
>>     
>
> I have a "license" to use this XML interface. For various reasons (which 
> is partly to do with lack of time and partly because of one aspect of 
> the API) I have not rewritten sh/qsl to use it.
>
> There is also the small matter of a suspicion (and it is, currently, no 
> more than that) that we are being treated differently to sysops of other 
> software, in that (I think) we will have to pay the subscription to his 
> xml service, where as (I am given to understand) they don't.
>
> I would be open to changing sh/qsl to using the XML interface, if there 
> is any interest.
>
> Dirk G1TLH
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