[Dxspider-support] Entity Code List

[Dirk Koopman]

Then the history of that number might be interesting:

The wpxloc.raw file is a direct descendent of the original AK1A "Packet 
Cluster" software. He was probably the first person to define a number 
for this purpose, long before the DXCC committee decided to do such a 
thing. In fact when Jim Reisert AD1C, the current maintainer of all the 
various prefix lists, was discussing with me the incorporation of 
wpxloc.raw  into a system that could generate all the various 
prefix/country lists that logging or contest programs like CTY et al 
use. He used his own internal numbering system. I did flirt with 
changing to the same number or even real DXCC country number to 
standardise, but wpxloc.raw always had many historical artefacts and 
also the real DXCC number is/was not static. As countries came and went, 
numbers would be re-used. This is no use to me as I have spots going 
back to 1997, when I first started writing this software. In those days, 
all I knew about was PacketCluster - I had been running a node for some 
time. There was a perfectly decent list of prefixes from that software, 
and was maintained (after a fashion), so I used that. For the same 
reason many logging programs that have been written over the years use 
cty.dat because that is what their authors were familiar with. These 
days of course ADIF has come along and Jim has to keep both entitiy 
numbers in a master list from which he generates the several 
specifically formatted prefix lists that he publishes from time to 
time.  But I shall continue to use the existing numbers until there is a 
compelling reason to change.

It is important that you emphasis to your members the vital work that 
Jim ADIC does for the Amateur Radio community. It affects every single 
system that concerns or uses prefix / country data and without his work 
we would all be in a muddle.

Dirk G1TLH

On 02/09/2019 23:55, Bill Shell via Dxspider-support wrote:
>
> Thank you Dirk.  I was writing an article for a local club, and was 
> covering the topic of filtering for upcoming DXPeditions.  I include 
> the DXSpider DXCC number in my Upcoming DX Calendar, and was looking 
> for an easy way of referencing the number without running the SH/DXCC 
> command each time.
>
> 73, Bill
>
>
> On 9/2/19 3:46 PM, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support wrote:
>> It's in your /spider/data/wpxloc.raw file. It ISN'T anything to do 
>> with ARRL DXCC. It is the internal entity number used to uniquely 
>> identify a "country" - a concept that is a bit more elastic than real 
>> countries.
>>
>> help sh/dxcc has a bit more info.
>>
>> Dirk G1TLH
>>
>> On 02/09/2019 23:01, Bill Shell - N6WS via Dxspider-support wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a complete list of DXCC entity codes used in DXSpider?
>>>
>>> I am referring to the numerical code for an entity you can find by 
>>> using the command SH/DXCC.
>>>
>>> sh/dxcc zd8
>>> Prefix: ZD8 Dxcc: *252* (Ascension-Island-ZD8)
>>>
>>> TU es 73,
>>> Bill
>>> N6WS
>>>
>>>
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