[Dxspider-support] DXCC country name and flags

[Michael Carper, Ph.D.]

The data generally comes from the AD1C list.  I have it automated for
updating on WA9PIE-2.  Some folks don't updated it at all... ever... so the
data gets stale and connected users will say that "the country shown is
wrong"... when it's just not being updated.

For this spot, I think the only way to determine the correct country is by
parsing off the suffix from the end of "Andalusia-EA".

Mike, WA9PIE

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 1:44 PM dd5xx--- via Dxspider-support <
dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello Dirk,
>
> I am using the CC11 raw output to parse to my webcluster interface I am
> currently experimenting on. I have some spots like:
>
> 28-May-2019 1822Z EA3LA B-GI-L-T-EA 50150.1 SP1MGM
> 28-May-2019 1822Z EA4DFE BA-CC-CR-CU-GU-M-TO-EA 18135.0 EA4DFE Cq ea
> 28-May-2019 1827Z *EA3EVL* B-GI-L-T-EA 50181.8 IN3FPJ
>
>
> and the raw CC11 packet looks like that:
> CC11^50181.8^*EA3EVL*
> ^28-May-2019^1827Z^^IN3FPJ^34^85^EA4RCH-5^37^14^28^15^^^B-GI-L-T-*EA*
> ^Trentino-Alto-Adige-I^^JN56
>
> As I am using the circumflex as field separator I store the data into an
> array. The field marked here with yellow background usually indicates the
> Country/Region name of the spotted call. In this example and some more I
> get weird letters separated by a dash as shown on the above example line/s.
> I guess they stand for a prefix but I have no clue how they are generated
> from. On most spots they are correct but on those example I get only a
> bunch of letters as shown. I have recognized that the tail of this
> Country/Region field (I have marked it with bold text in the yellow text)
> is indicating the correct prefix of that spotted country. In this example
> *EA* for *Spain*.
>
> *So my 1st question is:*
> Where does this information come from and why does it show such weird
> letter combinations for some spots?
>
> *My 2nd question is:*
> Some spotted calls contain in that field information like...
> CC11^50094.0^*AM70C*^28-May-2019^1836Z^QSYed by QRM
> CW^EA1WX^34^34^EA4URE-5^37^14^37^14^^^*Andalusia-EA*
> ^AV-BU-C-LE-LO-LU-O-OU-P-PO-S-SA-SG-SO-VA-ZA-EA^IN52^
>
> I am looking for a solution to get the correct DXCC name for this spot, in
> that case SPAIN. Is there any way to read out this information from a
> DXspider line or do I have to use another sort of conversion tools/libs?
> Are you aware of a solution which shows the correct DXCC for the spotted
> call and which allows me also to display the corresponding country flag for
> that particular country?
>
> looking forward to your reply, thank you so much in advance.
> 73, Saki
> DD5XX
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