At 06:17 PM 10/28/2001 , Barry N1EU wrote:
>1. Soundcard keying just quit on me suddenly ... Does anybody else
>experience this? (BTW, I'm also running DXTelnet)
No problems here.
>2. Speaking of which, because it's not all that unusual to have to exit
>and restart WriteLog it would sure be nice to have the option of
>saving/restoring Packet spots, which are currently lost as soon as you
>exit the program. Trying to refill the packet spot window with the 30
>minutes of good spot collecting that you just lost is otherwise
>impossible, sh/dx not withstanding. This option would obviously only be
>used with immediate restarting (due to program glitch), and not if you
>went QRT for any length of time. I can't overstate the need for this in
>light of the fact that the soundcard functionality gets lost intermittently.
You can do better than sh/dx -- do sh/dx/100 to get the last 100 spots (or
200 or whatever.) When you restart WriteLog, you're going to have to
re-establish your connection to the cluster (maybe the DXTelnet interface
doesn't require that) - so issuing one more command is not a big deal.
BTW - I don't think a 30 minute old spot is of much value, especially in a
contest like CQWW - other than the really big guns (whom you've probably
already worked), it doesn't seem that anyone sits on a frequency for
anywhere close to 30 minutes.
>3. Seems like a no brainer, but why aren't country and zone mults (color)
>coded differently in the bandmap and packet spot window, with double mults
>obviously marked? If nothing else, it would be nice to see double mults
>stand out.
Seems like a good idea! An obvious reason it's not done is that it would
place significantly higher load on the CPU every time a spot shows up, and
there are lots of people running marginal systems (and to me, anything less
than a Pentium II 350 is "marginal" for efficient use of WriteLog. You can
purchase a perfectly adequate system to use with WriteLog for $200 to $300
- see places like www.retrobox.com and www.computersurplusoutlet.com.)
-Marty NW0L
martyt@pobx.com
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