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<p>This is a legacy issue. DXSpider existed before M callsigns were
being issued and also in a time when people were very lax about
whether they added their mobile/portable/other country etc
callsigns before or after their callsigns in spots. Given that,
you can see where this is going: DXSpider thinks M/DL5AAA is in
Germany - mobile. </p>
<p>It needs fixing, but I am not in a place where I am comfortable
doing it. It will have to wait until next week. <br>
</p>
<p>Also, DXSpider has no concept of licence classes. If it is a
known prefix; in the prefixes file, then DXSpider will apply that
prefix to the spot in <prefix>/<call> situations. But
then there is still the confusion where people do
<call>/<prefix>(/P) if that prefix happens to be M.
There is only so much parsing I can do ...<br>
</p>
<p>73 Dirk G1TLH <br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23/09/2023 01:21, Phil Taylor M0VSE
via Dxspider-support wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi
John,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">It
isn’t just M/ (England) as MM/ (Scotland) also comes-up as
Germany. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Interestingly
MW/ MD/ MI/ MJ/ and MU/ (the other valid UK prefixes) all
yield the correct country. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">M2/
and 2E/ wouldn’t be valid according to T/R 61-01, but they
come up as England as well, as do 2W/ and 2M/ (which are
also invalid as the UK has no reciprocal arrangements for
Intermediate licenses).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">73
Phil M0VSE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Dxspider-support
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk"><dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk></a> on behalf of
John Spigel via Dxspider-support
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk"><dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk></a><br>
<b>Reply to: </b><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:w1an.dxusa@gmail.com"><w1an.dxusa@gmail.com></a>, The
DXSpider Support list <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk"><dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk></a><br>
<b>Date: </b>Saturday, 23 September 2023 at 01:00<br>
<b>To: </b><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk"><dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk></a><br>
<b>Cc: </b>John Spigel <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:w1an.dxusa@gmail.com"><w1an.dxusa@gmail.com></a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Dxspider-support] Prefix lookup
error<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="font-family:"Courier New"">Seems this is
something to explore in the country files for additional
anomalies. Something odd about M alone,You needs a full
prefix, and the #, where W/DL5aaa does not.<br>
sh/pre 2e/dl5aaa yields England<br>
sh/pre M/dl5aaa yields Germany<br>
sh/pre M2/dl5aaa yields England<br>
sh/pre W/dl5aaa yields USA<br>
John, W1AN<br>
<br>
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 22-Sep-23 17:04, Danilo Brelih via
Dxspider-support wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Leo, DL2COM was active today from
Richmond Royal Park National Nature Reserve near London
POTA G-0267.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">GL Dan S50U<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What does that callsign even mean? I
am actually wondering why it didn't treat as coming from
the UK. <br>
<br>
Dirk<br>
<br>
On 22/09/2023 14:51, Mike G3YPP via Dxspider-support
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Dirk,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Just noticed today a little bug in
the prefix lookup.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It showed up with M/DL2COM/P – which
displays as federal republic of Germany<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D;background:#F8F8F8">sh/prefix
m/dl2com/p</span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
<span style="background:#F8F8F8">M/DL2COM/P CC: 32 IZ:
28 CZ: 14 LL: 51 0 N 10 0 E JO51 (DL,
Fed-Rep-of-Germany)</span><br>
<span style="background:#F8F8F8">G3YPP de MX0NCA-2
22-Sep-2023 1237Z 2.4481 dxspider ></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D;background:#F8F8F8">Regards</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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