[Dxspider-support] spot dat file format ....

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 4:06 PM Dirk Koopman wrote:

> So the PacketCluster master prefix list was the only place where this occurred.
> By default then, this is why Jim Reisert AD1C continues (painstakingly) maintaining this file.

Dirk, the credit goes mostly to my software.  It's no extra work on my
part.  The last substantive changes made to the "WPXLOC" part of the
software occurred in August 2014.  As long as it keeps working, I have
no incentive to touch it.  It's done for backward compatibility with
DX spots made back in the very first days of DX Spider.

In fact, as new DXCC entities are added, the WPXLOC country number
simply increments from the last one assigned.  I did not bother to
make them match the ADIF country ID.  In hindsight, that might have
been a good idea.  However, it could have lead to confusion, because
some would match and others would not.  My recollection is that there
are a couple/few that actually do match, but that's just a
coincidence.

prefix (ADIF) => (WPXLOC)

PJ5 (519) => 355
PJ4  (520) => 356
Z8 (521) => 356

73 - Jim AD1C

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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us