[Dxspider-support] Country prefixes

[Dirk Koopman]

Erm..

Waves hand in desultory fashion...

I probably ought to try it, as I am the one that parses and creates my 
melange from it.

Dirk

On 13/02/14 01:54, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> I just checked the last files(s) that were released, CTY.DAT in Feb
> 2013 and WPCLOC.RAW in Sept 2003.
>
> Cuba:                     08:  11:  NA:   21.50:    80.00:     5.0:  CM:
> CO Cuba-CO                                             20 11  8   5.00
> 21 30  0 N  80  0  0 W @
>
> Amsterdam & St. Paul Is.: 39:  68:  AF:  -37.85:   -77.53:    -5.0:  FT/z:
> FT/Z Amsterdam-St-Paul-FT/Z                            58 68 39  -5.00
> 37  0  0 S  77 36  0 E @
>
> Hong Kong:                24:  44:  AS:   22.28:  -114.18:    -8.0:  VR:
> VS Hong-Kong-VS                                       218 44 24  -8.00
> 22 30  0 N 114  0  0 E @
>
> Macao:                    24:  44:  AS:   22.10:  -113.50:    -8.0:  XX9:
> XX Macau-XX                                           233 44 24  -8.00
> 22  0  0 N 114  0  0 E @
>
> Alaska:                   01:  01:  NA:   63.87:   153.78:     8.0:  KL:
> KL7 AK-Alaska-KL7                                     117  1  1  10.00
> 61 12  0 N 150  0  0 W * @
>
> ITU HQ:                   14:  28:  EU:   46.17:    -6.05:    -1.0:  4U1I:
> 4U1I I.T.U.-Geneva-4U/I                               283 28 14  -1.00
> 46 12  0 N   6 12  0 E @
>
> Uzbekistan:               17:  30:  AS:   41.40:   -63.97:    -5.0:  UK:
> UJ Uzbekistan-UJ                                      189 30 17  -5.00
> 40  0  0 N  64  0  0 E @
>
> In each pair, first one is CTY.DAT second one is WPXLOC.RAW
>
> I don't know why Amsterdam mismatches, other than one has lower-case
> in it.  But that's true of others also.
>
> I agree that the rest are broken.  I thought I had fixed these, but
> either I didn't, or they reverted to something else after the fix.  Or
> I hand-edited a file and sent it to Laurie, but never updated them in
> my database.
>
> Anyway, the process to build the existing WPXLOC.RAW file that (most
> everyone) has is convoluted and stupid.  The new process is much more
> streamlined, and uses all the same data, so there should be no
> mismatches.
>
> *** Laurie, are you willing to try the new file?
>
> - Jim
>
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Laurie, VK3AMA <_vk3ama_ at vkdxer.net> wrote:
>
>> There is a problem with the wpxloc.raw file in that several of the Entities
>> use a prefix that is no longer compatible with the cty.dat file.
>>
>> I notice this when connected to my DXSpider node using ARUser. The CC11
>> messages received have the incorrect (old?) prefix resulting in no display
>> of the Country name.
>>
>> Some recent changes I have made....
>>>
>>> Name, wpxloc prefix -> cty.dat prefix
>>> Cuba, CO -> CM
>>> Amsterdam Is, FT8Z -> FT/Z
>>> Hong Kong, VS -> VR
>>> Macao, XX -> XX9
>>> Alaska, KL7 -> KL
>>> ITU, 4U/I -> 4U1I
>>> Uzbekistan, UJ -> UK
>>>
>> I have been manually updating my wpxloc.raw file whenever I notice the
>> missing Entity name in ARUser. I have been intending to sit down one day and
>> check each entity in wpxloc.raw and correct all the errors and post a
>> correction to this list, but haven't found the time.
>>
>> de Laurie VK3AMA
>