[Logic] Spot Log Appearances

Mon, 2 Dec 2002 08:02:54 -0600

And I third it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
> Behalf Of Carl Smidt
> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 7:38 AM
> To: [email protected]; PDA
> Subject: Re: [Logic] Spot Log Appearances
> 
> 
> I second this request.
> 
> 73,   Carl   VE9OV
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Ben Hatheway 
>   To: PDA 
>   Cc: [email protected] 
>   Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 11:30 PM
>   Subject: [Logic] Spot Log Appearances
> 
> 
>   Dennis:
> 
>   In your release notes, you indicate:
> 
>   >6.0.127 BETA
> 
>   >The spot log now displays spots in reverse chronological order 
> based on the time received, not the timestamp from the webcluster.
> 
>   Not sure this change is better, especially when using 
> webcluster. When loading 25 at a time, the latest spot posted for 
> a given station,  which may contain needed updated information 
> about that posted spot, can sometimes be found in the center of 
> the group instead of the top where it used to be. Before, the 
> latest posts were at the top of the list. Now I have to take the 
> time to look down at each of the spots and their corresponding 
> timestamps to be sure that I have the latest information about a 
> particular station, since his frequency may have changed, or he 
> is listening on a different frequency. This takes more time and I 
> have to scroll to the appropriate spot to assure that the rig 
> will go to the correct frequency. I have missed some spots, or 
> clicked on some higher in the list only to have the rig go to an 
> incorrect frequency because he QSY's 
> 
>   I guess I can see this in a radio packet cluster environment, 
> but when retrieving up to 250 spots at a time, which can happen, 
> or only 25, it makes it more difficult to land the correct DX contact. 
> 
>   I hope you will consider changing this back, or making it a 
> setup option...
> 
>   thanks
> 
>   Ben Hatheway
> 
>   N6FM
> 
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