[Skimmertalk] Scheduling Skimmer band and frequency changes

[Pete Smith]

www.wd5eae.org

73, Pete

At 08:07 PM 11/28/2008, Steve Lott wrote:
>Pete how about a Link to this application ?????
>
>73
>steve
>KG5VK
>
>On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Pete Smith 
><<mailto:n4zr at contesting.com>n4zr at contesting.com> wrote:
>I thought Skimmer users might be interested - I just installed and started
>WD5EAE's neat little Skimmer scheduler app.  It is deceptively simple, but
>provides all the basic controls.  You can rotate through certain bands
>during certain periods, and certain bands at other periods (skipping, for
>example, 10 and 15 after dark).  You can tell it how long to stay on each
>band, and change the time on a band to reflect your assessment of its
>likely importance during a given time period.  For example, you might have
>15M only on for a minute until 1400, then stay on it for 2 minutes until
>1600, then drop back to a minute until 2000.
>
>There are a few bothers - the biggest is that the keyboard commands to stop
>the scheduler, to extend time on a given band, and to move to the next band
>appear to be active regardless of which program has the foreground, which
>makes for some amusing outcomes when attempting to compose an e-mail when
>it is running.  Perhaps in a future version it could be modified so it only
>intercepts those keystrokes when it is the active window.
>
>73, Pete N4ZR
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