[Dxbase] FW: DXBase Suggestion

Sat May 7 13:57:00 EDT 2011

I just got a cold one here.. The lawn is done and im gonna look for some dx.. 
everyone have a great afternoon its a beauty here. 
Dave N8DC 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Crownhaven" <crownhaven at bellsouth.net> 
To: "Alan Leith" <aleith at syd.eastlink.ca> 
Cc: n8dc-8 at comcast.net, dxbase at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Saturday, May 7, 2011 1:46:36 PM 
Subject: Re: [Dxbase] FW: DXBase Suggestion 
Al must be drinking today........ 
Steve, N4JQQ 
Alan Leith wrote: 
> I'm certainly not trying to, nor want to start a fight. And you have 
> absolutely no idea how much I enjoy ham radio even after 50 years. Enjoy 
> getting your grass cut. 
>> 73 
>> Al, VE1AL 
>>>>> -----Original Message----- 
> From: dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of n8dc-8 at comcast.net 
> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 1:28 PM 
> To: dxbase 
> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] FW: DXBase Suggestion 
>> Ok i have to mow the lawn and your probably lucky I do Hi Hi .. 
> get over it this isnt the place to start a fight ! 
> I still enjoy the hobby very much im really sorry that you dont but there 
> are options like star gazing and sewing if you prefer.. 
>> Dave N8DC 
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alan Leith" <aleith at syd.eastlink.ca> 
> To: "Greg Engle" <n6pyi at bak.rr.com>, dxbase at mailman.qth.net 
> Sent: Saturday, May 7, 2011 12:24:24 PM 
> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] FW: DXBase Suggestion 
>> If everyone would start to listen to their radios instead of staring at 
> their computer screens and clicking on spots, ham radio would be a much 
> better hobby than what it has become. 
>> 73 
>> Al, VE1AL 
>>>>> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Greg Engle [mailto:n6pyi at bak.rr.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 1:20 PM 
> To: 'Alan Leith' 
> Subject: RE: [Dxbase] FW: DXBase Suggestion 
>> Thank you for saying what I was thinking! 
>> -----Original Message----- 
> From: dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net] 
> On Behalf Of Alan Leith 
> Sent: May 07, 2011 9:16 AM 
> To: dxbase at mailman.qth.net 
> Subject: [Dxbase] FW: DXBase Suggestion 
>>>> And what's wrong with changing bands and using the tuning knob on your 
> radio? 
>> The next thing you're gonna want is a radio that will make the QSO for you, 
> fill out the QSL and employ a robot to take it to the mail box. 
>> 73 
>> Al, VE1AL 
>>>>> -----Original Message----- 
> From: dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Crownhaven 
> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 1:05 PM 
> To: n8dc-8 at comcast.net 
> Cc: dxbase 
> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] DXBase Suggestion 
>> Greg, Dave is right. We know that. I'm looking for "on the fly" as Dave 
> says. 17 meters is open for example. I want to chase some band countries. 
> I don't want to go to the trouble of sending the information to the cluster 
> because minutes later I might see activity on 12 and want to look there 
> too. 
>>> Neal? 
>> Steve, N4JQQ 
>> n8dc-8 at comcast.net wrote: 
>>> I think we all know that.. its just easier on the fly to do it with a 
>>> mouse click ! 
>>> Its too bad when you do that the data coming thru DxBase doesn't 
>> change 
>>> with CC user . 
>>> Simplicity i think was the reason on the original post . 
>> Dave N8DC 
>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Greg Engle" <n6pyi at bak.rr.com> 
>> To: n8dc-8 at comcast.net, "dxbase" <dxbase at mailman.qth.net> 
>> Sent: Saturday, May 7, 2011 9:33:46 AM 
>> Subject: RE: [Dxbase] DXBase Suggestion 
>>>> You can do that right now with a simple command to your spotting node! 
>>>> Go here for all the filters/users manual 
>> http://www.dxcluster.org/main/ 
>>>>>> 7.1 Filters to accept spots based on frequency 
>> <http://www.dxcluster.org/main/filtering_en.html> 
>> Syntax: accept/spot [0-9] freq <range> 
>>>> or 
>>>> accept/spot [0-9] on <range> 
>> Important: as noted before, both freq and on are exactly the same and 
>> can be used interchangeably. 
>> For range, you can specify a frequency like 7040, a range of 
>> frequencies like 0/30000 ( the whole HF spectrum) or use any of the 
>> band/region names defined in the SHOW/BANDS command (see above). 
>> Examples... 
>> This will pass on a HF spots only from 0 to 30,000 kHz and dump all 
>>> others. 
>>> accept/spot 1 on 0/30000 
>> This passes on all spots in the frequency range 144000 -> 148000 kHz 
>> and trash all others. 
>> accept/spot 2 freq 2m 
>> This rule will only pass on spots on 6m, 4m, 2m, and 220 and reject 
>> all others. 
>> accept/spot 3 on vhf 
>> This rule will pass on all spots on the 160m, 80m, 60m, 40m, 30m, 20m, 
>> 17m, 15m, 12m, 10m bands and all spots on 70cm and 23cm bands only. 
>> All other spots are trashed. 
>> accept/spot 4 freq hf and freq uhf 
>>>> -----Original Message----- 
>> From: dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
>> [mailto:dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net] 
>> On Behalf Of n8dc-8 at comcast.net 
>> Sent: May 07, 2011 5:30 AM 
>> To: dxbase 
>> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] DXBase Suggestion 
>>>> I agree as I do the same thing . I really like that feature in CC user . 
>> How about it Neal ? 
>> Dave N8DC 
>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Crownhaven" <crownhaven at bellsouth.net> 
>> To: "DXBase Reflector" <dxbase at mailman.qth.net> 
>> Sent: Saturday, May 7, 2011 8:14:25 AM 
>> Subject: [Dxbase] DXBase Suggestion 
>>>> It would be nice to have a future in DXB, similar to CC User, that 
>> allows one to click on a specific band and only see spots from that 
>> band. Right now I can toggle back to CC User but it would be even 
>> nicer to have this ability and see the summary screen at the same time. 
>>>> Steve, N4JQQ 
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