File Layout - FREQLIST.DAT FREQLIST.DAT is a comma delimited ASCII file that can be imported into most database programs. Fields are set apart from one another by commas, with text fields bracked in quotation marks. Below is the field information you'll need for your database program when you're setting up your blank data base file. Field Name Field Type # of Characters Comments on Field ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frequency Text 12 Frequency for scanner (XXX.XXXX) Channel Text 4 Ch. Designation used by user/dept. User Text 30 User of Frequency Location Text 20 Usually City where base xmtr/RP is Mode Text 4 TX mode (AM, FM, NBFM, etc.) Code Text 4 Service Code (see next field) Code Descpt. Text 62 Description of previous field Itinerant Yes/No 1 Is Freq. an Itinerant Freq? LP Yes/No 1 Is Frq. Low Power Frq? Date Entered Date 8 Date first entered into database Date Updated Date 8 Date record last updated Comments Text 67 "Short" Comments field for hard cpy Detail/Comm. Text 217 Extended comments on record The fields listed above are in the same order as the FREQLIST.DAT import file.