[Dx4win] DX Spotting Window

David Kozinn, K2DBK k2dbk at arrl.net
Sun Oct 19 21:45:46 EDT 2014


Bud replied to me (but not the full list) and said that there are 2 INS 
keys on his keyboard. One didn't work, the other did.

Could be a num-lock think, but in any case it's working fine for him now.

On 10/19/2014 7:52 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Bud Governale <w3ll at arrl.net> wrote:
>
>> Pressing INS does not appear to do anything.
> Then something is wrong.  If you type the insert the INS key in the DX
> spots window, it should add the word (HOLDING) to the end of the
> window title.  Does it do that?
>
> Holding allows you to scroll back and forth a window at a time.
> Without INS, if a new spot came in, DX4WIN would return to the newest
> spots.  It does NOT keep new spots from coming in or causing the
> window to scroll a line at a time for incoming spots.  All it does it
> keep the window from scrolling all the way forward if you have gone
> back a few screens, and a new spot comes in.  This is obviously much
> harder to deal with during a contest.  Sorting by TIME instead of by
> ARRIVAL helps, because new spots take the place of old spots.
>

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