[WriteLog] WL V12 in ARRL DX

[Mike Heideman]

We had one operator several years back who liked to set up bandmaps for all the bands on a second monitor.  After he moved on no one else had any interest in setting them up.  If you have the space to set up a second monitor then you can see at a glance what activity there is on all the bands and perhaps find a band opening that you otherwise might miss.
 
In my experience I never glanced at the second monitor often enough that it influenced a band-change decision.  My personal preference would be to set up a second Packet Spots window, if that were possible, that showed either a different band or Mults-only on all bands.  I've done this in the past by running Writelog on a second computer with no attached radio, just showing the Packet Spots window with different settings to see what's happening on other bands.
 
The Fixed Bandmap feature was also used to create several bandmaps for multiple segments of a single band so that all of the activity on that band could be seen at once.  Again, I prefer the Packet Spots window for this purpose.  If it's necessary to retune an exciter, amp or tuner to move between different parts of the band then the bandmaps may be a better tool for guiding click-and-pounce.
 
73,
-Mike, N7MH
 
> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:56:29 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Don AA5AU aa5au at bellsouth.net
> 
> My apologies to Ed since he got that information from my webpage. I had written that the spots will not populate on these bandmaps when indeed they do. It was a typo on my part.
> If you have the packetcluster connected, spots will populate the fixed bandmaps.
> I am going to connect a second monitor to my main radio PC and set this up. I presently have it running on a laptop and it's a pretty cool feature to see the spots showing on all the bands at the same time. If you are running a contest with 160 meters, you can have all six bands covered by showing one bandmap that is connected to your radio and five others showing the other bands.
> 73, Don AA5AU