[Dxspider-support] CTY-2907 Country Files - 03 May 2019

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 8:04 AM Greg M0NZO wrote:

Your instructions for DX Spider (
> http://www.country-files.com/dx-cluster/dx-spider/) state to download
> CTY.DAT and WPXLOC.RAW, which I have done. However, I notice that there is
> also a WPXLOC.DAT file in my /spider/data directory. What’s the difference?
> Do I need to update this too?
>

I do not think that DX Spider uses the WPXLOC.DAT file.  Dirk can correct
me if I'm wrong.

WPXLOC.DAT is an attempt to create a more complete country file than either
WPXLOC.RAW or CTY.DAT by themselves.  For the most part, WPXLOC.RAW takes
care of prefixes, and CTY.DAT takes care of callsigns.  WPXLOC.RAW changes
far less frequently.

CTY.DAT is not complete, because rules for some of the prefix mappings are
built into the K1EA CT software itself, for countries that span multiple CQ
zones, like Australia, Canada, China, Russia and USA.  I think only CC
Cluster uses WPXLOC.DAT at this point.

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