[CQ-Contest] N1MM Auto-spotting Change

[Steve London]

It is very common for two stations to be running within the tuning 
tolerance you have set in N1MM Logger. You S&P the first one. Good. Now 
you S&P the 2nd one. With your proposed implementation, working the 2nd 
one will automatically change you to Run mode. Bad.

Using the standard function key layout, you would very naturally press 
F1 to start a CQ on your Run frequency. With current N1MM Logger 
implementation, that would automatically change you to Run mode. Good.

73,
Steve, N2IC

On 10/30/2015 12:35 PM, W0MU wrote:
> Why would the program not figure out that it was in run mode if two
> contacts were made on the same frequency back to back?
>
> Forgetting to set run mode is a pretty common issue.
>
>
>
> On 10/29/2015 7:45 PM, David Siddall wrote:
>> I updated N1MM+ today, and indeed it includes the revision to spotting.
>> The notes explain it thusly:
>>
>> "For each Entry Window, do not auto spot QSOs if successive QSOs are
>> on the
>> same frequency. This is for those who forget to set run mode when
>> running.
>> (K6LL) (Coded by N1MM)"
>>
>> 73, Dave K3ZJ
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Ken Low <kenke3x at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> The key word here is "RUNNING."  Nothing worse than seeing someone with
>>> "Spot all S&P QSOs" turned on when they are actually running a frequency
>>>> (Pro tip:  You should be in Run mode then.)  Dozens of mults that
>>>> aren't
>>>> really there piled up in the band map on top of each other, so then I
>>> have
>>>> to block the spotter to keep the bandmap and the mult window clear.
>>> "I am happy to report that, thanks to N1MM, this will be changed in the
>>> next release of N1MM Logger+.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>>
>>> Steve"
>>>
>>> THANK YOU Steve !!!!
>>>
>>> There were a whole bunch of stations who polluted the band map last
>>> weekend by spotting while running.  Even after being told repeatedly
>>> what
>>> was happening, they did nothing about it, and may not even have known
>>> how
>>> to change their own configuration.   I can see how new or
>>> inexperienced ops
>>> at a Multi could have unknowingly done this.
>>>
>>> Anyway it was a huge waste of time for any Assisted op trying to keep an
>>> accurate band map.
>>>
>>> Ken KE3X
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