Canadian Amateur Radio Callsign Database

blantonl · #1 (**permalink**) 09-20-2011, 5:17 PM

Does anyone know if there is a downloadable Amateur Radio callsign database for Canada? Any other countries?

Jay911 · #2 (**permalink**) 09-20-2011, 6:02 PM

I don't know about downloadable, but Radio Amateurs of Canada has an online lookup on their site. I suppose it's possible they would share their data (or its source) with you.

bezking · #3 (**permalink**) 09-20-2011, 6:09 PM

As far as I have been able to find out in the past, there is no "official" data dump for .ca callsigns like the FCC has for us here in the US.

MikeOxlong · #4 (**permalink**) 09-20-2011, 6:44 PM

I would assume that RAC gets their data from Industry Canada.

I'd check with them to see if there's a downloadable copy.

bezking · #5 (**permalink**) 09-20-2011, 6:58 PM

I stand corrected. At this link: http://www.callsign.ca/index_en.php There seems to be a "download" tab where you can get a Zip file containing a (poorly-formatted) text file containing a database dump...

mrscanner2008 · #6 (**permalink**) 09-21-2011, 6:12 AM

go to http://www.indicatif.ca and choose download file on top tab.

Jay911 · #7 (**permalink**) 12-17-2011, 11:42 PM

Lindsay - did any of the links here work? It looks like some of them are broken, but I believe the link http://apc-cap.ic.gc.ca/datafiles/amateur.zip should be fairly reliable and kept up to date. When I downloaded it just now, it had today (Saturday)'s date on the top of the text file. I'm pretty sure it's the same poorly-formatted file Bezking mentioned.

Looks like it's a fixed-width file - the format is in the readme included in the zipfile.

blantonl · #8 (**permalink**) 12-18-2011, 12:10 PM

I haven't had a chance to get to this yet but will do probably after the new year.

Thanks,