[Xastir] FCC lookup

Steve Friis wm5z at comcast.net
Thu Jul 12 16:57:45 EDT 2007


Earl Needham via Kubuntu wrote:
> Steve Friis wrote:
>> Earl,
>>
>> Maybe you could try to re-download the file. I just tried the new 
>> database file and it shows Roy in Clovis just fine.
>>
>> Steve/WM5Z
>
>     Thanks, Steve -- I've done that multiple times this morning and 
> still get the same results.
>
>     I've got several older versions archived here, maybe I should try 
> one fo them to see what happens.
>
>     OK, tried one from this past February and still didn't work.  This 
> must be something I'm doing out of ignorance.
>
>     Earl
Did you use a direct download or the perl script <fcc-get>in the scripts 
folder? The script handles the file fetch, then decodes the data and 
sorts it for you.

Are you using dial=up internet? Might be getting hits on the download 
from noise. Lots of thunderstorms in NM this time of year.

Steve/WM5Z




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