Ok the K3NG rotator controller seems to work perfectly now. From what I saw it looked like I forgot to update the az starting position \J0 and \Q took care of that. All good. Now to button up the box then set up the software to drive it. ;)
My Linux toolkit of choice for dealing with tabular data is "csvkit" which does a good job of slicing and dicing tabular data. The amateur data set includes a table EN.dat which looks pretty complete for individual user records.
Some fields are obvious, but not all are, and I'll have to do some further reading in the data dictionary.
that said I did find this pretty interesting FCC DB to SQL importer from #K3NG
with a writeup here



