[Dxspider-support] sh/dxcc 666

[JMarcio S]

Thank you very much Dirk for your time clarifying the details.
I keep the cty files up to date. I also use a conversion table for adif and
the exception file in my app, kindly provided by the clublog.
I'm going to send it directly to Jim, who does this great job.
This is not my native language, sorry by something that can be
misunderstood
73 J  PY4OG


Em dom., 1 de nov. de 2020 às 18:42, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support <
dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> escreveu:

> On 01/11/2020 07:01, JMarcio S via Dxspider-support wrote:
>
> Hi Dirk and all
> could you check if there is a bug please?
>
> sh/dxcc 666 and then show TX0T, only in the mojo version.  4U75UN also
> spotdxcc = 666.
>
>
> Country 666 is necessary within the code to mark a callsign as unknown or
> 'P1RATE'.
>
> I found 666 in the wpxloc.raw file but nothing to point to TX0T.  666=
> used to pirate?  This causes errors in my app because 666 is not valid
>  dxcc #.
>
>
> The country numbers in wpxloc.raw were invented by AK1A for his original
> "PacketCluster" DOS software. As new countries have come along, new numbers
> have been added. Some of the countries in wpxloc.raw no longer exist in the
> real world, but they live on in wpxloc.raw so that - should anyone be
> interested - spots from 1997 can still be searched and otherwise processed.
>
> Any resemblance between a country number in wpxloc.raw and numbers that
> DXCC use is a coincidence and you *should not* use wpxloc.raw country
> numbers for any other purpose other than processing DXSpider (and earlier
> AK1A) spot files.
>
> I DO NOT MAINTAIN wpxloc.raw. Jim Reisert AD1C maintains a database of
> special callsigns, prefixes and countries. He generates prefix files (like
> cty.dat and wpxloc.raw - but there are many others) and issues them from
> time to time. He notifies all interested parties (including this mailing
> list) whenever he issues a new release.
>
> The mojo branch allows all sysops to track cty.dat and wpxloc.raw locally
> on their system. This means that most sysops use one mechanism or another
> to download these two files to /spider/local_data and  then run
> create_prefix.pl and, afterwards, do a 'load/prefix'. This means that I
> don't have to keep absolutely up to date any more - although I generally do
> update the prefixes if I am doing development work.
>
> So, if anyone believes that there is a new prefix out there, then please
> email Jim AD1C - politely - as he does this out of the goodness of heart.
>
> 73 Dirk G1TLH
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J.Marcio
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