[TRLog] TR 6.64 comments...

D. R. Evans N7DR@arrl.net
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:11:30 -0600


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On 17 Apr 2002 at 8:55, Ron D. Rossi wrote:

> >>>Jim Smith said:
> > Hi Ron,
> > 
> > Haven't tried 6.64 yet.  Was anything done about not being able to set the
> > decay time beyond 63 min or so?  I would like to be able to set it to,
> > say, 4 hours as it makes S&P much easier.  i.e. I don't have to wait ten
> > minutes for the guy to give his call when I'm tuning by if I've already
> > got him on the bandmap.
> 
> Not yet. The only practical way for me to do this would be to change the
> granularity of the decay from one minute increments to something larger. The
> max number of "time units" an entry can survive is 63. That is not going
> away. However, I can make the "time unit" programmable. I know how I can
> implement it. I need to think about what to call it and how to present it. I
> am thinking simply BAND MAP DECAY UNIT = 1, 2, 3, ...? It needs to show up
> right next to BAND MAP DECAY TIME in the ctrl-J menu to avoid confusion.
> Comments?
> 

Ugly, but I would sure like this. I find the current limitation very 
annoying and, worse, causes me to waste time and adds to my frustration 
level. 

  Doc  N7DR




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