[Dxbase] DXbase 2007 impressions

[Peter Dougherty]

Hi All,

Just wanted to publicly thank Jack for his very hard work on DXB 
2007, which I've been testing out for the past little while. With the 
Montenegro team going strong the past few weeks, let me say, 
categorically, that the EXCLUDE feature is worth the price of 
admission to 2007. Having my "all-time-new-one" alarms going off 
every 30 seconds was always a problem (think Peter1, too). Now when 
you work the operation on a band and/or mode, just a right-click and 
that alert is silenced for that selected band/mode. Add "excludes" as 
you work the operation on successive bands and modes, or different 
callsigns in the case of the recent Montenegro operations, etc. This 
is a great feature!

In the coming months I'll be active on 6m with a second radio 
(IC-7000). The dual-radio/dual-rotor controls will be a very welcome 
feature once I'm QRV on six, allowing me to click an HF spot and set 
my Mark V, or a 2m, 6m or 440 spot and set the '7000 as well, with no 
additional button-clicking, etc. Very easy setup, one-time, and from 
then on, you're ready for dual-rig DX operations.

But even before any of that can happen, you have to install DX Base. 
Unlike the last few years where I needed to spend a little bit of 
time (OK, OK, a LOT of time) customizing it to my liking, this time 
around setup is absolutely painless. All my helper-apps, shortcuts, 
window sizes, colours, etc, came across. I had to move my custom 
label files, custom .CO files and a few other things over from 2006 
to 2007, but that took 30 seconds, tops.


At 07:06 PM 08/16/2006, Jack wrote:

>We are currently getting the web site and files ready for release 
>and hope to have that completed in the next several days.  We think 
>you'll like some of the new features that allow you to have IOTAs 
>alerted similar to the way DX spot alerts work.  Makes chasing IOTA 
>a piece of cake.  You'll also like the new feature so that when you 
>click on a DX/IOTA spot to QSY, DXbase will now automatically select 
>radio1 or radio 2 along with rotor1 or rotor2. And, once you work 
>that needed one, you can add it to a new Exclude database so that 
>future DX/IOTA spots don't alert you unnecessarily.



Cheers,

Peter,
W2IRT