US Stations stopped auto-populating name

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It appears that the logger stopped auto-populating the “Their Name” field, even for US stations.

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Well, I tried another one, and it worked. It seems to be hit-or-miss.

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I had another one that missed the operator name. I think it’s the POTA stations that do not auto-populate “Their Name.” It does not load that information when loading all the data from the spotting database.

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Thanks for letting us know about that Andy! We’re looking into it right away!

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I think that what is happening is that you are logging before the lookup completes. You have to tab out of the field for the lookup to trigger. Looks like that is an issue we need to look into

Soon, we will have a call sign database of our own so we’ll be able to look it up without the API call to HamDB, and that will be the permanent fix

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Okay. I’ve actually tabbed away and left the contact awhile before logging it. I tend to enter a callsign I hear on the air before or as I’m contacting them, and then log it after I’m done, so it probably sat there for a few minutes.

Yes, the local database would certainly be ideal.

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Thanks for that extra context, that may mean some other problem is happening. Looking into this right now

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I think this was already an issue when using the “Copy to Log” button on a POTA/WRL spot. It would copy some details and omit others. I’m assuming you are using a modified version of that same code to pull the park ID, state, and grid automatically if a POTA spot for that station is detected.

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Yes, exactly! We just kicked off some new development work now to fix the call sign search issue. We’re looking at a bandaid fix to make it search faster as well as fix the state non populating issue.

Also, we’re going to go ahead and accelerate moving off of HamDB and moving to our own database here in the next week or so. That should really improve performance and quality!

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Sounds good! I talked with Max a little bit about the offline app, but it might be a good idea provide an offline copy of the database for use in the offline app. It could sync to the server database to update with any changes whenever the device is online. Just an idea.

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100%! Yes, I think we should be looking at about 3M possible global call sign records so shouldn’t be too difficult to get a full offline download.

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