[Xastir] Search FCC database not working?

[William McKeehan]

Looks like that was my problem too...thanks for the tip!

On Sat, January 22, 2005 3:51 pm, Tom Russo said:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 03:42:17PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <mckeehan at mckeehan.homeip.net> flavor, containing:
>> Is anyone else having problems with the "Search FCC database" button not
>> finding call signs?
>>
>> I have fetched the data by using the fcc-get command, and when I grep
>> /usr/local/share/xastir/fcc/EN.dat for the call sign in question
>> (specifically, KE4FGW), I get one record. But when I search via the Station
>> Information dialog, I get a "Callsign Not Found!" message.
>
> Yes, I have seen this happen.  Look carefully at the first and last few
> lines of your EN.dat file.  Last time I updated, these early and final lines
> appeared to be scrambled --- it looked as if there were some corrupt lines
> of the input that got placed funny by the sort operation.
>
> When I deleted them and let xastir reindex the file (by removing the
> .xastir/data/appl.ndx file) the behavior went away.
>
> I'm not sure why the bogus lines confused the issue or where they came from,
> but the solution was simple enough in my case that I never bothered looking
> further.
>
> --
> Tom Russo    KM5VY     SAR502  DM64ux         http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
> Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236 AHTB#1
>  "When life gives you lemons, find someone with a paper cut."
>
>


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