[Dx4win] DX spot colors revisited

Wed, 3 Sep 2003 15:28:19 -0500

I doubt that Paul will ever make these colors user programmable for the
priorities.  I think the order you laid out for 1) never worked 2) never
worked mode 3) never worked band will satisfy 90% of the DX community.  The
unconfirmed mode and band are neat touches, also.  Paul spent a period of
several months getting the never worked band as a reality, and that has
helped me more than any other improvement in DX4WIN as getting bands worked
for anyone chasing MIXED, PHONE, and CW (or RTTY) takes a lot of work
without this improvement working properly.  After a while there are not many
never worked left.  The logic used by DX4WIN is pretty straightforward and
as best I can sort it out, depends on the priority order for the searches to
be very quick (and it is).

Yes, I agree with your order.  I confirm DX to the ARRL requirements and do
not care for having to work every band in all modes as that requires working
Dxepeditions too many times, but there are those that want to work every
band on both CW and Phone and RTTY.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 3:23 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] DX spot colors revisited

I think I boiled the priorities down to three simple rules:

1.  All-time never worked has the highest priority.

2.  When both entities are unworked or both entities are
     worked but not confirmed, mode has priority over band.

3.  When one entity is unworked and the other is worked
     but not confirmed, the unworked entity has priority
     over the worked entity.

The priorities I suggested earlier seem to embody these requirements:

   1 = never worked
   2 = never worked mode
   3 = never worked band
   4 = unconfirmed mode
   5 = unconfirmed band

Does this make sense to everyone?

73 - Jim AD1C

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