I was wrong. The FCC just moved the database snapshot file to a different URL, and changed the download protocol. Should have a new version of the callsignDB plugin available in the next build.
Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
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From: "Andrew P." <andrewemt@...>
Date: 1/12/21 22:49 (GMT-05:00)
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[email protected] Subject: Re: [yaac-users] Callsign DB
callook.info doesn't add any info over the official FCC database, since it only supports US licenses. Now, another site that covered international licenses, that would be of interest.
Regarding problems with the FCC database, it looks like they are actually providing a minor improvement in licensee privacy by no longer making the entire list of licensees downloadable as they were when the CallsignDB plugin was first written. The license grants are still public record, but you have to look them up with a known identifier (such as callsign) one at a time, as European Union nations have been doing for some time. So I shall have to change the plugin to do a dynamic lookup (similar to QRZ, but before trying QRZ) on a callsign-by-callsign basis, where YAAC will cache found results for later reuse.
Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
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What about using one of the free callsign lookups, such as https://callook.info/
also, the FCC DB download seems to have a broken link for me:
