Already much of the fun has been taken away from ham radio by these new fangled radios that do everything but wash the dishes. The least you can do once the rig goes to the spotted frequency is to immediately split the frequencies and tune around for the pile-up instead of going to the QSX frequency that's been spotted and adding your signal to the hoard who've already started calling without knowing if they can hear the DX.
And what, in the name of all that is good and holy, is the point of having the antenna turn to the spotted direction if you're in NJ and the spotting station is in CA? No wonder we're a people of obesity. We don't do anything for ourselves any more. 73 Al, VE1AL -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Dougherty Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 2:05 PM To: [email protected]; 'DXBase Reflector' Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Suggestions for dxbase 2010 Well, the tongue-in-cheekiness aside, there is actually some serious merit to combining parts A, B and C. Right now, if you click a spot you QSY the radio and set the mode - that's it (and QSX may be entered if formatted correctly in the spot). I'd like to suggest that if you double-click a spot that the following happens: Radio VFO A set to the DX's transmit frequency and mode, VFO-B sets the split if into is found (and allow for shortcuts such as QSX 204 = 7204, not 204 kHz), populate the call in the Callsign field, auto-populate other fields from supplied info and turn the antenna(s) to their short-path bearing. If the spot contains the string "LP," then set the antenna to the Long Path bearing, but maybe have this feature user-settable in the setup menus. In other words, all ya gotta do is double-click and make the contact. ----------------------------------- Regards, Peter, W2IRT -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Larry E Price Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:31 AM To: 'DXBase Reflector' Subject: [Dxbase] Suggestions for dxbase 2010 Namely, once the program [A]correctly identifies (not through the user tuning the bands with an actual receiver but through electronic aides) that a "needed entity" (love that term), is on the air, [B] QSY's the rig to the proper frequency (because the correct radio.ini file is enabled) [C] aims the antenna to the proper path [D] had a QSO with the station using the properly interfaced keyer {either Morse or voice synthesizer or on of 69 other distinctive modes} [E] logs the entity using the correct DXCC 'prefix' [F] confirms the contact my uploading the logs.. ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
