[Dxbase] Wishlist for DXB 2006

[Bob Main]

When you have two radios or rotors connected and you are trying to communicate with them instead of a window saying "HF radio failed to respond.  Do you want to disable further requests to the HF radio?" coming up AND repeatingly coming up until you finally click on "Yes".  What would be more helpful is after the first time is to bring up the options page from User Options for that item.  The window means that most likely there is something wrong on that page and should give you a chance to change it.

Another thing that would be handy would be if there was a "Test" button on the option page or some easy way that you could test the connection between DXBase and the radio/rotor before you actually try to send or get any information from it.  Maybe even a way so that if you have multiple COM ports the program would send a command to each COM port that only the radio/rotor would respond to and therefore identify which port it is connected to.

For instance, I have two empty COM ports 3 and 8.  Right now nothing is connected to either of those two ports.  If I says that Radio 2 is connected to COM 3 and I try to send it a command to change frequency nothing happens, not even the window mentioned in paragraph 1.  If I change it to COM 8, then I get the window which 5 seconds after trying to do the same thing.  I should get it at both windows since it isn't connected at all.  Why is that?

73s
Bob
KB4CL