[nos-bbs] Callbook lookup with JNOS and FCC data

[Charles Hargrove]

I use an ALIAS link to the UALR (Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock) online
callsign database server.  mbox alias CALL "telnet callsign.ualr.edu 2000"

> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 22:50:10 -0800
> From: Bill Vodall <wa7nwp at gmail.com>
> To: TAPR xNOS Mailing List <nos-bbs at tapr.org>
> Subject: [nos-bbs] Callbook lookup with JNOS and FCC data
>
> Times have changed since we first started doing JNOS and running
> callbook lookups.   Somewhere I still have the 5 floppy disks for one
> of the callbook products.   Today the US and CA data is all available
> as a minute or two download and take an insignificant amount of data
> on the available disk resources.   This data can currently be used by
> Xastir - but has anybody tried it with JNOS?
>
> I just re-enabled Finger-  I'd forgotten how powerful it is.  It
> mentions callbook data and that gave me the idea of using the openly
> available databases.
>
> Thanks again!!!
> 73
> Bill, WA7NWP

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