At 08:15 PM 05/08/2006, Gary Senesac AL9A wrote: >DX Atlas does a lot more than just give you a map. Continuous gray line >updating, grid squares, beam headings, lat/long postioning, and with the >right interfaces - propagation data. Also has a neat polar projection view >to see the path between your qth and anywhere else on earth from 'space'. >The grid sqaures can be flagged to show which ones you have confirmed and I >often use this feature to figure out the grid square number from a rare >station that didn't bother to put that info on his qsl card.
Not just that, but if you have IonoProbe as well, you can "see" propagation paths, the auroral oval, critical frequency, etc, etc. I love the suite of programs that Alex has come up with, and their integration....I'd love to see Jack get all of them to play nicely together with DX Base, that's for sure. That said, though, I'd rather have the mapping graphics of MacLogger or full integration with Google Earth using their free APIs. That would be utterly awesome, to be able to graphically map your entire logbook into a Google Earth overlay! in the meantime, though, for sure -- DX Atlas is the cat's meow. Download a 30 day free trial and play around with it. I bought it after 2 days and haven't regretted it for a nanosecond. Cheers, Peter, W2IRT
