On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 03:59:55PM +0000, Wilbert Knol wrote:
> The CLX (DX Cluster for Linux) software already has a country database
> (postgreSQL). Perhaps we could have used that.
Oops. I'll check it out.
> Nothing wrong with what Hamish posted though...I will try to load it tonight.
> Would keying by prefix speed up the looking-up process? (we're more likely
> to want to know where '7O' is, or '4W')
True -- but the DXCC list I used didn't unfortunately didn't map
1:1 from prefix to entity. Some prefixes are used by multiple entities.
For example VK9Y (from memory), and perhaps also VK0. I was hoping
to key it all by prefix but that didn't seem possible.
> The CTY.DAT list of DX entities is available and regularly updated:
> http://www.contesting.com/ct/files/
Cool, I'll grab that too. The file on the newsgroups was a real mess.
It had an amateur prefix, a list of secondary amateur prefixes, and
a list of all ITU-allocated prefixes, for each entity. However,
some entities were missing the ITU-allocated list. Others were missing
well known amateur allocations -- eg the US only listed K; the others
were listed as ITU-allocated but not in use by amateurs!
So it couldn't be imported directly. I would really prefer a data source
which could be imported automatically by a perl program.
> I'm interested. The advantage of staying here would be the possibility of
> attracting constructive comments.
Thanks for your comments Wilbert. I guess we'll stay here until
the interest level rises a bit.
Hamish
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