[Dx4win] Local spotting?

[Pete Smith]

At 07:09 AM 3/25/04, Rick Graham wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I was wondering if anyone could direct me to a telenet site(s) that has
>only spots that would be semi-local to my qth (Pennsylvania)? While
>seeing spots of DX from people halfway across the world is nice, it
>isn't practical for me personally.
>
>Or is there a way that I can filter out those kinds of spots?
>
>Sorry, this may be off topic for some.
>
>DX4WIN has some filters in Preferences|Packet 1.  I find it useful to 
>filter for only Zone 3-5 spotters.  Except in DX contests, the rate of 
>arrival of spots is low enough so that the profusion of grey spots doesn't 
>bother me, and sometimes it is nice to know what bands a DXpedition is on, 
>even if there isn't prop to my part of the world.  If it does, you can 
>always set up to ignore grey spots.


Depending on the software used by your cluster node, there may be a myriad 
of filtering options available there.  This is particularly true of 
AR-Cluster.  Either way, you'll need to read the friendly manual, but you 
should be able to get what you want.


73, Pete N4ZR
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