[Xastir] FCC database

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, KC7ZRU wrote:

> Just got this from another reflector (BeaconNET)- no idea if this'll
> affect xastir or not.
>
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>
> If you are a user of my FCC Lookup program, please note that the latest
> FCC data this is published on the FCC web site is corrupt and will cause
> the indexing routines to fail.  I have determined the FCC has inserted a
> number of extraneous 'end-of-line' characters throughout the data files
> and this is causing the indexing routines to fail.

It's possible that with the sorting we do before we can use the
file, we skirt around the problem.

Perhaps someone can try the latest data and let us know.

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