[Dx4win] Special Event Callsign Usage and DX4WIN

[Duane A Calvin]

Hello Paul,
        The current run of the W6x stations (Route 66 On the Air) brings
to mind an anomaly I noticed earlier on DX4WIN.  Is it possible to add an
"expiration" date for callsign recognition?  Here's what I'm thinking. 
Perhaps we could have a single value (easiest option to code) that would
allow the user to set some period of time prior to which spots received
for previously worked stations would again show up as unworked.  My
immediate problem is that I worked most of the W6x stations currently on
the air back in 2001 (1996 for one of them), and so as I'm trying to work
them all again this year, I'm not getting them in the DX Spots window. 
If I could set an expiration date on the spot comparison logic such that
spots for stations older than 11 months (for example) would again show up
as unworked, I could use it to identify "new stations" during these
operating events and re-work them for the new year's credit.  Likewise,
once they were worked this year, they would not show up in the Spots
window.  Just a thought, and certainly not high priority.  My solution
may not be the best, it's just the first one that comes to mind.

        73,  Duane 

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Duane Calvin, AC5AA
Austin, Texas

http://home.austin.rr.com/ac5aa