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Callsign location by Country. - 3 Updates

Callsign location by Country.

I had some sucess extracting callsigns by postcodes from an old RSGB Callseeker dongle. I was trying to get data about hams in my local area. I remember it was tedious and repetitive but not a big enough dataset that developing automation was sensible. But postcode data is available... <pete.sin...@gmail.com>

Iain Cooke <iainm...@gmail.com>: Sep 03 12:26PM -0700

cannot find any by country at all, what am I missing?

On Wednesday, September 3, 2025 at 12:33:20 PM UTC+1 Iain Cooke wrote:

Philip Gladstone <phi...@gladstonefamily.net>: Sep 03 04:24PM -0400

If you want UK licensees, then I'd file a freedom of information request
with Ofcom stating what you want.

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Tom M0LTE <t...@m0lte.uk>: Sep 04 10:43AM +0100

Iain-

You need to write a parser for the country file data into your environment
of choice

Then you need to write logic which finds the ‘deepest’ match for the
callsign you have, so you take into account all the possible exceptions
first

Then you need to ensure you regularly update the country file data in your
application

It isn’t a straight callsign list mapped to country- such a thing does not
exist for the UK and never will, since our prefixes are variable by current
location (and also are optional, apart from 2# calls). And there is no
public list of active calls. So a rules based approach is the only
practical way.

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Aside from those who opt out of this kind of data gathering- which is many

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Iain Cooke <iainm...@gmail.com>: Sep 03 12:26PM -0700 cannot find any by country at all, what am I missing? On Wednesday, September 3, 2025 at 12:33:20 PM UTC+1 Iain Cooke wrote:
Philip Gladstone <phi...@gladstonefamily.net>: Sep 03 04:24PM -0400 If you want UK licensees, then I'd file a freedom of information request with Ofcom stating what you want. Philip Philip Gladstone [image: Bitsight website] <https://pskreporter.info>
Tom M0LTE <t...@m0lte.uk>: Sep 04 10:43AM +0100 Iain- You need to write a parser for the country file data into your environment of choice Then you need to write logic which finds the ‘deepest’ match for the callsign you have, so you take into account all the possible exceptions first Then you need to ensure you regularly update the country file data in your application It isn’t a straight callsign list mapped to country- such a thing does not exist for the UK and never will, since our prefixes are variable by current location (and also are optional, apart from 2# calls). And there is no public list of active calls. So a rules based approach is the only practical way. On Wed, 3 Sep 2025 at 21:24, Philip Gladstone <phi...@gladstonefamily.net> wrote: