[Dxspider-support] USDB

[Ian Maude]

But not on the wiki I don't think

Ian J Maude, G0VGS
Sysop GB7MBC DX Cluster
K2 #4044 | K3 #455
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On 10 Mar 2010, at 14:41, Dirk Koopman G1TLH <gb7tlh at dxcluster.org>
wrote:

> Ian Maude wrote:
>> But no info on how to install it?
>
> From near the bottom of the download page:
>
> US State and City Database
>
> Some people like to filter on or generally just "know" about which
> US State or City a callsign is in. The latest software will now (as
> of the CVS version or 1.51) allow this. There are also some commands
> to get this information displayed on a DX Announcement.
>
> In order to use this information then you must download usdbraw.gz
> to a temporary place (I would suggest /tmp or c:\tmp).
>
> After downloading (it is over 4Mb in length) you must:
>
>   1. run /spider/perl/create_usdb.pl /tmp/usdbraw.gz or wherever you
> have downloaded it to.
>   2. in a console window do: load/usdb
>
> On Linux you will either need to load Compress::Zlib from CPAN or
> you will need to unzip the usdbraw.gz file before running the program.
>
> From time to time a new usdbraw.gz file will be uploaded. You need
> to run the above procedure to update the running system.
> create_usdb.pl also (confusingly) updates the database.
>
>
> Dirk
>
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