[Trlog] 10-meter contest after thoughts

["Tim Totten, N4GN" <n4gn@n4gn.com>]

Three thoughts that I scribbled down during the 10-meter contest (one has 
lots of time to scribble down such things in this contest, at least from 
KY when you have S9 line noise):

1) I almost always set "DE ENABLE" to FALSE in my LOGCFG.DAT file.  For 
some reason, I've noticed in the last couple times out that at some point 
in the contest (usually late), TR starts acting as if DE ENABLE has been 
changed to TRUE.  I'm not changing it manually, and when I look at 
LOGCFG.DAT after the contest, I see it's still FALSE.  It's certainly no 
big deal, but it makes me curious what is going on.  Anyone else 
experience this?  Any clues?

2) In this contest, I often find myself changing "BAND MAP DISPLAY DUPES" 
(I think that's the right name) between TRUE and FALSE.  With both modes, 
between packet and the second op spotting things in the band map, the band 
map easily overflows the screen.  When I'm running, especially late inthe 
contest, I'd like to have some idea how many "fresh meat" stations are 
available, so I often turn off "DISPLAY DUPES".  If I see some appropriate 
number of likely targets, I can quickly knock them off one by one on the 
second VFO, or make a quick S&P run with the "NEXT BAND MAP", which I have 
programmed into F10.  For a more "normal" S&P run, I'd like to see the 
dupes, so I don't waste time trying to identify them.

Bottom line, I think it would be really cool to have an "automatic" mode 
where the dupes do not display in the band map when I'm in run mode (so I 
can easily see how much fresh meat is out there), but they do display when 
I'm in S&P mode.  So I'd suggest a new option of "BAND MAP DUPE 
DISPLAY = AUTO" in addition to the current choices of TRUE or FALSE.

3) Finally, I noticed that when I have "BAND MAP DUPE DISPLAY = FALSE" 
some weird things happen when I actually try to work (or delete) the last 
remaining spot in the band map.  It seems to cause some garbage to be 
entered into the call sign window, and once it even replaced the deleted 
spot with some old dupe spot.  No other ill effects after I deleted the 
garbage from the call sign window, but I just stopped trying to delete all 
the spots (basically, any spotted station in Asia was a safe bet to keep 
on the band map!).

73,

Tim Totten, n4gn@n4gn.com
http://www.n4gn.com
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