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

[Rob Roschewsk]

Ahh .. I see now .... Thank for the details Dirk!

-> Rob



On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 11:09 PM Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support <
dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> Yes, it is the country number in wpxloc.raw.
>
> This is a historical artefact from the original PacketCluster software
> Dick Newell, AK1A which first appeared in ~1985. For some reason, even in
> 1997 when I started writing DXSpider, there was no _definitive_ country
> number - I spent some time trying get some entity to admit to having a
> definitive and, above all, permanently fixed country number that would
> never change nor be repurposed for some other country.
>
> So the PacketCluster master prefix list was the only place where this
> occured. By default then, this is why Jim Reisert AD1C continues
> (painstakingly) maintaining this file.
>
> 73 Dirk
>
> On 30/01/2019 19:03, Rob Roschewsk via Dxspider-support wrote:
>
> I really tried to find this data myself ... but my google-fu just isn't
> doing it today .....
>
> for the daily data files in the spot directory .... i've figured this much
> out ...
>
> 14279.3^VE2MAM^1548873720^^KE0JHC^197^226^AE5E^4^5^7^4^^MN^65.61.83.82
>
>
> FREQ^DX^TIME^COMMENT^FROM^????^????^ROUTE^DX_ITU_ZONE^DX_CQ_ZONE^DE_ITU_ZONE^DE_CQ_ZONE^^
>
> I'm coming up short on the fields with the question marks ....
> specifically in the example 197^226
>
> I suspect it's a country id ... but it's not lining up with the DXCC list
> .... What are those numbers??? Is there another country list?
>
> Thanks!!
>
> de ka2pbt
>
> --> Rob
>
>
>
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