Ken,
Most of the packet nodes have filtering capabilities. You might want
to filter the incoming spots to cut down on packet "noise." For
example, zone 4 only, US only, certain states, etc.
Barry W2UP
On 30 Oct 2002 at 9:19, Ken Brookner wrote:
> while everyone is talking about the bandmap, one function that might
> be helpful would be to have a way to tell where the spot came from.
> one problem I have in s&p is wasting time looking at spots where
> there's no propagation to the spotted station from my qth. perhaps
> after the callsign, the zone number of the spotting station could be
> shown in parens, or something. like... x5xxx (3). then, we'd at
> least have an idea of who was hearing the station when they spotted
> it.
>
> I found myself looking back through the packet window to find the
> stations that originated the spots.
>
> this is really minor. but it occurred to me last weekend and I
> figured I'd just pitch it out there.
>
> 73
> kenb, KY5G
>
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