Stelios, Well, I can see you've been hard at work. Very interesting, but a lot to digest! Your comments clear up a lot of my questions and I'm looking forward to testing on our nets here in Western Pennsylvania.
Thanks very much for your work on this! -Dave, KB3FXI Stelios Bounanos wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:44:29 -0400, David Kleber <davek at >>>>>> salsgiver.com> said: > >> Dave and all, >> Any chance of getting a layman's summary of the notifications menu? > > There is some documentation in the online help, but it does not describe > some recent work on the notifier such as the RSID support. For the > latter: > > Select "RSID reception" from the event menu. > > Check "Ignore duplicates" and set a suitable time span. This will > ignore successive RSID transmissions for the previously received mode > and frequency (+/- the RSID precision). Not essential but recommended. > > Set trigger limit to 0 (no limit) unless there are a lot of RSID > transmissions on the band. > > Click the button next to "Show alert window" to insert the default text. > Or click on the button next to "Append to RX text" to get the text that > inserts a clickable marker in the received text every time the event is > triggered. You can customize the text and of course you can have both > action types. > > Select an appropriate window timeout, e.g. 30s, if using the alert > window. > > Test the event to see what the alerts do. If you are ignoring > duplicates, you will find that subsequent tests will be ignored > according to the Dup. time. To get around this you can reselect the > event from the list at the bottom to redisplay the event -- this resets > the timeout of the temporary event that is used for testing. Or you can > enable duplicate filtering after testing :-) > > Finally click the Add button to register the event. > > > With an RSID reception event set up, you could also select > "Notifications only" in the RSID pane of the main config. The > notification windows will show the detected modem and frequency and the > "Go to ..." button will switch to that modem/freq. > > Note: naturally, if you select "Notifications only" but have no RSID > events registered or they are all disabled (or they have no actions), > then RSID reception will be effectively ignored even if enabled in the > main window. > >
