[Dxspider-support] CTY-3105 Country Files - 03 March 2021

Thu Mar 4 01:00:07 CET 2021

I figured out my problem. For some reason wget doesn't see the file as
having been changed!

$ wget -N http://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat
--2021-03-03 18:50:45--  http://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat
Resolving www.country-files.com (www.country-files.com)... 72.52.250.187
Connecting to www.country-files.com
(www.country-files.com)|72.52.250.187|:80...
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 304 Not Modified
File ‘cty.dat’ not modified on server. Omitting download.

It doesn't update the file and inside it shows "C3,=VERSION;"

So, instead I switched to curl and ran:
curl -Os http://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat

This time it updated the file and inside it shows "J5,=VERSION;" which is
correct and everything now works.

Does anyone know why wget doesn't see the file as having been changed? Is
it getting that information from the server?

-David, N9KT

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 6:25 PM David Spoelstra <davids at mediamachine.com>
wrote:

> OK, now you guys made me check mine and I'm having problems too! I do the
> following:
>     cd /spider/data
>     wget -qN http://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat
>     wget -qN http://www.country-files.com/cty/wpxloc.raw
> I check the dates and they look correct:
> -rw-r--r--  1 sysop spider  77K Mar  3 18:03 cty.dat
> -rw-r--r--  1 sysop spider 538K Mar  3 18:03 wpxloc.raw
>
> I look inside cty.dat and see: C3,=VERSION;
>
> Then I run:
> /spider/perl/create_prefix.pl
> which updates:
>     -rw-r--r--  1 sysop spider 821K Mar  3 18:15 prefix_data.pl
> Then I login to my cluster and run "load/prefixes" which works.
>
> But, when I run "sh/prefix version" I get: VERSION DXCC: 12 ITU: 27 CQ: 14
> LL: 42 35 N 1 37 E (VERSION, Andorra-C3)
> Which doesn't match what you all are getting!
>
> When I looked in prefix_data.pl I see:
>   '=VERSION' => '75',
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks!
> -David, N9KT
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 4:58 PM Luigi Carlotto IK5ZUK via Dxspider-support <
> dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi Kjell,
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> I've understood now. But however despite having downloaded the last
>> cty.dat from the following URL:
>>
>> https://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat
>>
>> the DXCC entity identifying the version is not "Guinea-Bissau-J5" but
>> "Cocos-Keeling-Islands-VK9C": so, if I'm not wrong, this means that the
>> cty.dat file downloaded is not the last one.
>>
>> Of course, after cty.dat download in /spider/data, I've done the
>> spider/perl/create_prefix.pl and finally, into the spider console done
>> the "load/prefix" command.
>>
>> Kjell, please could you tell me the exact path for downloading the last
>> cty.dat file ?
>>
>> Thank you and sorry for noise to the others.
>>
>> 73 Luigi IK5ZUK
>>
>>
>>
>> Il 03/03/2021 22:17, Kjell Jarl via Dxspider-support ha scritto:
>>
>> Follow the path Jim outlined
>>
>>
>> ---- Luigi Carlotto IK5ZUK via Dxspider-support skrev ----
>>
>> Sorry Guys,
>> below is the output for "sh/prefix version" done in my spider:
>>
>> sh/prefix version
>> VERSION CC: 201 IZ: 54 CZ: 29 LL: 12 9 S 96 49 E NH87 (VERSION,
>> Cocos-Keeling-)
>> (IK5ZUK-1) de IK5ZUK-6  3-Mar-2021 2040Z dxspider >
>>
>> Where is the version number ?
>>
>> 73 Luigi IK5ZUK
>>
>>
>>
>> Il 03/03/2021 21:37, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support ha scritto:
>> > SH/PREFIX VERSION will also work. A rather off the wall SH/MOON
>> > VERSION also works  :-)
>> >
>> > In fact any command that would show a location as part of its output
>> > will work.
>> >
>> > Dirk
>> >
>> > On 03/03/2021 20:27, Jim Reisert AD1C via Dxspider-support wrote:
>> >>> A question: I'm running DxSpider software, is there a command to see
>> >>> what is the CTY version installed into the system ?
>> >> One of these may work:
>> >>
>> >>    (*) SH/H VERSION
>> >>    (*) SH/SUN VERSION
>> >>
>> >> (*) These are CC Cluster commands, but I think DX Spider uses the
>> >> same ones.
>> >>
>> >> The callsign VERSION will be identified as a particular DXCC entity,
>> >> which is always listed at the top of the release notes, for example:
>> >>
>> >>      https://www.country-files.com/cty-3105-03-march-2021/
>> >>      VER20210303, Version entity is Guinea-Bissau, J5
>> >>
>> >> So it's easy to tell if you have (or do not have) the latest version
>> >> of the country file, but if the version entity does NOT match, you
>> >> will have go searching the older release notes to find out which
>> >> version you DO have installed.  There is a search box in the
>> >> upper-right hand corner of the web page I listed above, type in
>> >> Version Entity and you will see them for each release.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
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