Jim - I am sure others would agree that your efforts with the country
database are above and beyond superb!I know that 1% concern you have is
bugging you, but the rest of us are just so happy that you do this, that we
would never complain.
THANK YOU JIM!
73, John K9EL
-Original Message-
From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net On
Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2022 11:45 PM
To: John Paul Keon
Cc: DX4WIN Reflector
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] KH6KW
On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 10:25 PM Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> KH6KW
>
> It looks like this callsign was re-issued. It will be fixed in the
> next release of the country file.
>
Here's a longer explanation:
I have software that runs automatically once a week to download the latest
callsign changes from the FCC database. It specifically looks for callsigns
like this: KH6 call in lower-48 states, non-KL7 call in Alaska, etc. This
only really works well when the callsign is used by one ham.
The two things that the software doesn't do well are a) recognize canceled
callsigns, and b) recognize re-issued callsigns. KH6KW failed on both
fronts.
Every now and then (once every month or two), I will look for re-issued
callsigns. It's a semi-automated process. The software looks for callsigns
that were canceled (like KH6KW) to see if they have been re-issued after the
cancelation date. But it only looks for re-issued callsigns if the callsign
had previously expired or been canceled. KH6KW was not identified as a
canceled (or expired) callsign in my master database, so the process to
identify re-issued callsigns never checked KH6KW.
Someday when I have lots of free time, I am going to rewrite my FCC program.
I don't have that time now. The program is a little fragile, so I'm
reluctant to try to make small changes to it. It works 99% of the time, but
KH6KW fell into the other 1%. Plus, as I have discovered over the years,
the weekly data that the FCC provides has some idiosyncracies that are hard
to explain.
73 - Jim AD1C
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Jim Reisert AD1C, , https://ad1c.us
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