John,
A key idea here is that you don't want to FILTER the spots. You simply want
to flag them as being problematic. If a spot comes in with a bad or missing
QSX frequency, or outside the US bands, I still want to see that spot and
then make a decision on how to handle it.
If I use DXtelnet as you suggest, I wouldn't even know that the station was
available! It denies me the ability to make a decision that I might want to
go check it out!
The graphic nature of the bandmap is a great place to show information like
that. It helps me to strategize. You could even get more clever and based
on mode, highlight the band-edges in yellow: 3K at the top of the band for
USB and .5K at the bottom of the band; reversed for LSB; and .5K on both
ends for CW; or, whatever the user specifies. Again, the information is
there, you decide what to do with that information.
People make misteaks :^) when they are very tired or inexperienced (I
confess to both). A few minutes/hours/weeks? of programming time could help
prevent that!
I receive nice OO messages, after every CQWW contest, from a gentleman in NJ
whenever I operate near the band edges. However, I didn't hear from him
after the brief out-of-band run I had into Europe, in the CW portion of the
15m band, late in the first CQWW phone contest I ever participated in. I
haven't repeated that mistake, but I, and a lot of others, still end up
inadvertently calling stations in the CW portion of the 40 meter band during
the wee hours of the morning in the CQWW phone contests.
..Eugene..
AE2F
-----Original Message-----
From: WA9ALS - John [mailto:jfleming@shelbynet.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 10:12 AM
To: WriteLog Reflector
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] FWD: Feature idea [out-of-band notification]
> Operation: WriteLog would use a file that describes band segments
permitted for
> each license class in a country.
Rather than Wayne adding more programming to WL, seems to me that the
easiest way to handle out of band spots is just to use DX Telnet, which is
already compatible with Writelog (and DX4WIN) and allows extensive filtering
options. With DX Telnet, you can easily set the band limits you want, and
even "listen" to multiple clusters, Internet and RF, all at the same time
with no duplicates or out of band spots, and the spots will appear both in a
window and in the WL bandmap. I don't see how you can beat that. DX Telnet
can also be exporting the spots to DX4WIN at the SAME TIME if you like!
If interested, just search on DX Telnet, and you'll find it - demo
available - no affiliation! 73
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