[Dxspider-support] DXCC Numeric

[Michael Carper]

Yep... I suspected I'd hear about how this pre-dated ADIF by 10 years.
Fact is... no one uses it.  So it has little value.  That said... you're
right... if there's a lookup table to convert the wpxloc.raw. to the ADIF
numerics, that's probably good enough.  The issue really is having a
numeric to look up for country - rather than the country field.

This is basically looking programs I'm referring to here...

Mike, WA9PIE

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 6:17 AM, djk <djk at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> The numbers are contained in wpxloc.raw, which is an extended version of
> the original file for prefix info that AK1A use[sd].
>
> These numbers predate ADIF by at least ten years.
>
> When I originally asked a very similar question (in 1997 and several times
> afterwards) for a definitive set of "DXCC" numbers: answer came there none.
>
> The fact is also (for a variety of reasons) that there are more numbers in
> use in wpxloc.raw than there are ADIF / modern DXCC numbers.
>
> Changing them on your node could be made to work, but you would need to
> fiddle with all sorts of deeply buried code in (amongst other things)
> Prefix.pm, create_prefix.pl and you would also place yourself apart from
> Jim AD1C's excellent prefix updating service. And then there is the
> necessity of revising the "history" of all the existing spot files (which
> in my case go back to 1997), as well as any filter specifications that
> users might have. Those are all the places I can think of right now, but I
> guarantee that will be a few others that will bite if you go down this road.
>
> The truth is that the numbers that DXSpider uses these days are
> effectively internal. They have no causal relationship with any other
> numbers, users do not have to use them, they can use prefixes in all
> commands (like filters) that might ultimately use those numbers internally.
>
> The best way forward is probably to generate a simple lookup table to
> convert wpxloc.raw numbers to ADIF and use that to export stuff - if that
> is what you are ultimately wanting to do. It is, after all, just a simple
> %hash lookup in perl.
>
> Dirk G1TLH
>
>
> On 04/09/15 05:53, Michael Carper wrote:
>
> I hope I don't stir up a hornets nest with this question, but...
>
> Cluster nodes generate a DXCC numeric number that is not propagated
> between nodes... but could be useful, if not for the fact that it doesn't
> match the ADIF numeric for DXCC.
>
> So...
>
> Given that we're working with open-source code here... can anyone tell me
> where the existing numeric values are?  If I wanted to change them on my
> node to match the ADIF numerics, where would I change them?
>
> Mike, WA9PIE
>
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