[Dx4win] Bug?

[Mel Martin]

Hi Paul...

I had mentioned this in the discussion we had on spot levels.

I realize it is by design... but my reasoning is as follows...

At present, if the spot is outside the filter zone it's grey. Correct.

If a spot arrives from inside the filter, indicating it is being heard 
in the area of interest, it is colored. Correct.

Now if another spot arrives withing a couple of minutes from outside the 
geographic area it turns grey again... indicating it isn't being heard 
in the area of interest? Wrong. It's probably still being heard.

I would be inclined, on receipt of a spot outside the area of interest 
Not to flip the color back to grey. Or maybe, a refinement, a colored 
spot should be protected for a period of time... 15min, 30min... I'm not 
sure... a valid spot inside the zone resets the timer... but this 
requites more work.

Of course, all this alert logic is wasted when dopes insist on posting 
spots informing the world of what they CAN'T hear or begging for 
contacts. Perhaps a future refinement... a spotter blacklist ;-) 
(Actually not a bad idea as I think about it.)

Speaking of lists... have you considered supporting friend.ini. Its 
probably a better source of operator's name than the CDs & Servers 
(Which usually have my formal name of Melvyn from government records 
instead of my on-the-air name of Mel) and wouldn't require much coding 
to query.


Paul van der Eijk wrote:
> Mel,
> 
> Your point #3 is by design; see the description in the on-line help. I'm
> not sure why you say it is an unwanted feature.
> 
> --Paul, KK4HD
> 
> Mel Martin wrote:
>> Grey means either:
>>
>> 1. You have worked them
>>
>> 2. You have the band or mode disabled
>>
>> 3. The spot is from outside the geographic area you are filtering on.
>>
>> I suspect #3
>>
>> BTW, one unwanted feature I have noticed. If you have a colored spot and 
>> grey spots are enabled... if a spot from outside your filter is 
>> posted... it turns the spot grey!
>>
>>
>> Jack Shirley wrote:
>>   
>>> Today TO2T was coming up as a GREY spot on dxspots on 28 mhz even though I
>>> have not worked them on 28mhz.
>>>
>>> I did a F8 for TO2T and it comes up only on 14 mhz.    Why?
>>>
>>> Any other condition would cause this?
>>>
>>> 73  N8DX
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-- 
Mel, VE2DC