[Dxspider-support] Does updating DXSpider over-write pre-existing CTY files?

[Dirk Koopman]

It appears to. I could start distributing that rather than the smaller one.

Dirk G1TLH

On 16/08/16 17:39, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Dirk Koopman wrote:
>
>> Also, while cty has some specific info on individual callsigns of interest,
>> these are pruned regularly and so it may be that the historical record
>> contained in the spots can't be matched up with the current cty data. Indeed
>> there are countries and/or in my spot records going back  to 1997 that don't
>> exist any more.
> Has anyone tried using the "big" cty.dat with DX Spider?
>
>      http://www.country-files.com/big-cty/
>
> This might help with those expired callsigns.  The callsign data goes
> back to 2000, though my original intent was to only be current for the
> last 10 years, to try to keep the size of the file manageable.
>