It's not minor. How about a little status line that pops up if you hover
the mouse over the spot that will tell you the source of the spot and how
old it is in minutes? Yeah!
73,
Barry N1EU
>From: "Ken Brookner" <kenb@brookner.com>
>To: <writelog@contesting.com>
>Subject: [WriteLog] bandmap
To: <writelog@contesting.com>
>Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:19:09 -0800
>
>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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