[WriteLog] Bandmap Scrolling - How About a Tabular Display?

[Don Melcher]

I agree completely with Eric - I think it is MUCH easier to use - sort
of like an analog vs. digital meter movement - with analog - you know
instantly there was a change, which way and (relatively) how much. With
a digital meter - you have to do the math... That is why a LOT of
instrument in aircraft are still analog meters - or at least digital
representations of one - much easier to interpret quickly.

I would like to be able to run it across the screen horizontally - that
would help as my SO2R setup is one radio (RUN) is on a shelf above the
other (S&P). I would ALSO like to be able to name the window - i.e.:
RUN, S&P, FT1000D, IC-751A, etc. Finally - I which WL would support the
sub-rx in radios like the 1000D as another radio - sort of a poor-man's
SO2R. It would even be handy with the others that really only work in
the same band (all the other radios with sub RX).

Don
W6ZO





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From: "Eric Scace  K3NA" <eric@k3na.org>
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Subject: RE: [WriteLog] Bandmap Scrolling - How About a Tabular Display?
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:10:49 -0400

Bob --

   I actually prefer the slide rule format because it shows graphically
empty spaces in the band (i.e., potential running frequencies).  If you
set the kHz-per-pixel value to an appropriate size for CW or SSB, you
can actually see quite a lot of the band.  I set my bandmap windows to
occupy the entire vertical space of the window, one on each side (left
radio and right radio).

-- Eric K3NA

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Subject: [WriteLog] Bandmap Scrolling - How About a Tabular Display?


First, let me say I think WriteLog is absolutely the best contest
logging program, or I wouldn't be using it.  The Windows format is great
for packing lots of information on the screen in a very flexible way.
To me it beats all the DOS contest programs, hands down.

That said, one of the things that I would like in WriteLog would be a
bandmap similar to TR Log, i.e., a simple tabular listing of call signs
and frequencies across the entire band.  When did slide rule dials go
out of existence?  With the NC-300?  Why are we displaying this
information in this antiquated way?