[WriteLog] SS packet spots

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I use ARUser, a cluster/spot/filtering/everything program to connect to the clusters and 
it forwards the spots to Writelog.
I keep ARUser on one monitor and set the filters to pass on SS type spots.
That way I have both worlds, qsy capability from WL and can watch for those needed 
sections on the ARU screen.
ARU can be found at www.bcdxc.org/ve7cc/default.htm#prog


and each year, a couple of clusters change to SS spots only. Quite popular during SS.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Senesac AL9A" <al9a at pobox.mtaonline.net>
To: "Writelog Reflector" <writelog at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:09 PM
Subject: [WriteLog] SS packet spots


> Ran the SS this year as an Unlimited station for the first time.  Actually
> only the second contest I've used spotting clusters.  I found it very useful
> in the CQWW SSB for spotting mults, but was under whelmed by what I was
> seeing in the SS contest.
>
> The spots would display on the bandmap ok, but the when they showed up in
> the spots window in WL all I was seeing was the callsign and the spot time.
> What I had hoped to see was info about which section the station was
> actually giving out.  I needed NNY, ME and RI, but many of the 1's and 2's I
> went chasing after were in ENY, WNY, NLI, FL, TX, CA, or virtually anyplace
> BUT the needed areas.  Is there anyway to configure either WL or the cluster
> info to display the section of the spotted station???  I use VE7CC's cluster
> interface.
>
> Also, I was having trouble with the check boxes in the WL spots window.  If
> I checked the Mults box, I got no spots at all.  I assume since there was no
> info coming through about which section the call was in there was no way for
> WL to determine if it was a needed mult.  Even more puzzling was if I
> checked the In Band box, I still got spots from other bands.  For example,
> if I was on 15M I was getting spots for 15M as well as 20M, 40M, etc.  Call
> me confused!
>
> Gary AL9A
>
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