At 2/5/2006 12:15 PM, Peter Dougherty (W2IRT) wrote: >Hi guys, > >Just thought of another cool feature that I'd love to see in some future >version. Right now, you can set your alarms to go off for an entity that's not >worked at all, or worked but not confirmed. I'd like to add an option to the >latter -- not confirmed within x months. > >Let's say you've never worked Peter 1. It shows up red, you work him; great. >Now, he shows up on a different band, it shows up blue (or new mode, yellow), >and you work them again in those bands/modes. Now it gets annoying to see the >same colours show up for the same operation as the DXpedition progresses. > >It would make sense to put a 6 month (or user-definable) timer on >worked-not-confirmed. Again, let's take the above example...you've made two >20m SSB contacts let's say with Peter 1 (one insurance), so you know you don't >want to see that alarm again.
If everyone believed that the practice of working a rare DXpedition multiple times on the same band/mode for "insurance" was the proper practice, many of us would not be able to work them for the first time. These large DXpeditions, especially now, offer real time log confirmation. Work the DX, take a few minutes to bask in the glow, then check their Internet website for the confirmation. If you can't hear the DX when you attempt to work them, then don't work them.
