[Dx4win] Leaving Telnet connected 24/7

[K2DBK - David]

In the Setup Parameters dialog, on the Packet1 tab, you could set the 
spotters for W6,W7,K6,K7 (etc), which would narrow it down a bit. It 
would still receive the other spots, but they won't be highlighted.

Rather than trying to keep a day or two worth of spots in DX4WIN, 
I'll look directly on DX Summit or one of the other siites and just 
pull down a pile of spots for that particular DXpedition.

At 05:05 PM 12/20/2007, Kelly Johnson wrote:
>Actually, seeing something that was on 8 hours ago is sometimes
>useful, especially for a DXpedition because it gives you an idea of
>what bands they are working at what times of day and what times of day
>people in your part of the world are hearing them.  The bigger problem
>with this approach is that I don't know if you can filter the DX
>Summit spots based upon the geographic location of the person posting
>the spot.  I typically use a telnet cluster that filters out
>everything except spots made by U.S. stations on the West Coast (where
>I live).  I would really want to load in only spots from West Coast
>stations.  Would that be possible?
>
>
>
>On 12/20/07, David, K2DBK <k2dbk at arrl.net> wrote:
> > One of the options that comes with the default list of cluster locations
> > is the ability to pull down spots from DX Summit. You could pull down
> > 1000 spots (or even more, I think) and see if that helps.
> >
> > Of course, it's not going to help much to find something rare that went
> > off the air 8 hours ago, but it would let you know that they might be
> > around.
> >
> >
> > Kelly Johnson wrote:
> > > I often leave DX4WIN running and Telnet connected for DX spots 24/7.
> > > When I am home, I can check the window every time I walk by the shack
> > > to see if I see any Red or Yellow spots.  If I'm not home, the telnet
> > > window collects all the spots so that when I return I know what
> > > activity has occurred while I was gone and in some cases the DX
> > > stations are still there when I return.
> > >
> > > Question - I'd love to avoid leaving my computer running 24/7 if
> > > possible.  Are there any internet based services out there that can
> > > collect the spots while my computer is offline and allow me to fill my
> > > DX4WIN spot window from those saved spots when I bring my computer
> > > back online?
> > >
> >
> > --
> > 73,
> >        David, K2DBK
> >        http://k2dbk.com
> >        http://k2dbk.blogspot.com
> >
> >
> >


73,
         David - K2DBK
         http://k2dbk.com
         http://k2dbk.blogspot.com