[Trlog] 10-meter contest after thoughts
Tim Totten, N4GN
n4gn at n4gn.com
Mon Dec 13 11:20:42 EST 2004
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 at n4gn.com
http://www.n4gn.com
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