[Dxspider-support] RBN Callsign Rejection

[Dirk Koopman]

There is a node wide definition of a "valid" callsign. It is a 
large(ish) perl regex. It is used very frequently. It also uses the 
CTY.DAT data and if that is not up to date or a special callsign isn't 
in there then if both these checks fail then you will get this message. 
Or, just maybe (and whisper this quietly) there is a bug!.  There are 
certainly 'features' some of which might be a problem :-)

I am already aware of some issues with blizzards of leading and trailing 
'/' characters which needs attention both in this area and in sh/dx.

These and other issues will be dealt with when I finally finish my (now 
several weeks of) antibiotics. I am feeling much better - but not 
actually well.

In the meantime, however, I need to say that will be no "white" list as 
such for RBN. You can have your own local copy of cty.dat (lower case) 
in /spider/local_data, add callsigns to the correct entity and then run 
/spider/perl/create_prefix.pl  + 'load/prefix' in the console. That 
*should* fix it - at least until the next cty.dat comes out.

73 Dirk G1TLH

On 05/10/2020 17:03, Bill Shell - N6WS via Dxspider-support wrote:
> Here is an example of the 4U75UN callsign rejection.
>
> 16:00:17 (*) RBN: ERROR invalid prefix/callsign 4U75UN from VE6JY-# on 
> 18071.6, dumped
>
> 73, Bill
> N6WS
>
> On 10/5/2020 6:53 AM, Bill Shell - N6WS via Dxspider-support wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I noticed in the N6WS-6 debug log the callsign 4U75UN is being 
>> rejected as a bad callsign as a RBN spot.  Is there a way I can allow 
>> some known callsigns to pass?  Is there a RBN callsign whitelist?
>>
>> TU es 73,
>> Bill
>> N6WS
>>
>> p.s. The newest version of DXSpider is running without any problems 
>> here, except as noted above.
>>
>>
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