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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Charlie,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>The spots were shown to be from K1XX (presumably you?) There were also some spots from some CA stations, their callsigns were not really memorable so I can't remember them specifically off the top of my head. I am located in Colorado, pretty much smack in the middle of zone 4.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>I could do state filtering, but now am interested in whether I have something not properly setup on my system, or whether there is some other issue. I don't quite understand the format and/or use of the cty.dat file in any case. An excerpt from an older cty.dat file, located on my work system with a old version of spider, for the United States section shows:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>United States: 05: 08: NA: 43.00: 87.90: 5.0: K:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> 4U1WB,AA,AA4NU(4),AA8RK(5)[8],AA8UL(5)[8],AA9LA(5)[8],AB,AB4JI(4),AC,AD,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> AE,AF,AG,AH0M(5)[8],AH2M(5)[8] ...(continued)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I don't really know what this is telling me, so I am not sure what would be required to edit it to suit my needs.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>As for the changes directory, is that setup for each distribution, or is that part of a specific distribution, or part of a CVS download? I am not sitting in front of my system right now, but I don't recall seeing that directory. I loaded the most current version by clicking on the 'the latest CVS version' link and downloading and untarring the CVSlatest.tgz.tar file...It is version 1.51 (don't remember build number), but downloaded within last 2 weeks.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: charlie carroll [<A HREF="mailto:k1xx@ptcnh.net">mailto:k1xx@ptcnh.net</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 2:27 PM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: The DXSpider Support list</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Filtering Issues</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Mike:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Look at the Changes file located in the spider directory. Info on the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>usdb file is located in the 13 October 02 timeframe. Follow those</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>directions to acquire and setup the file.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>In this case, filtering is performed on the user's callsign, not the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>node callsign. What callsign from my node was issuing spots that you</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>were seeing?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I think it depends on where you are located within the zone boundries. </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>If close to a boundry, I'd look at by_state filtering. However, it</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>really depends on how narrowly you wish to limit spots.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>73 charlie, k1xx</FONT>
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