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

[Howard Leadmon]

 I tried it here as well, and it says it loaded in without error.   I only
saw the zip version of the file, so extracted it from that, so assume that
was the correct approach.

73's..

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Howard Leadmon - WB3FFV

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dxspider-support [mailto:dxspider-support-bounces at dxcluster.org]
> On Behalf Of Dirk Koopman
> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 1:58 PM
> To: The DXSpider Support list <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
> Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Does updating DXSpider over-write pre-
> existing CTY files?
> 
> 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.
> >
> 
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