Dave,
I am sure that these have been suggested before, but in the
possibility that they haven't:
1. Add a right-click on spot item that brings up an email form that is
populated with your return email, a subject identifying the callsign
of the spot target with UTC time/date appended. In the body of the
message include the entire spot detail. Optionally you might include a
config that would allow you to setup a particular email target(s) that
these emailed spots would to to. Now what would really be cool is if
this process could also be done through an instant messenger (IM). And
ultimate coolness would be if the recipient (either email or IM) also
used DXLabs suite and by clicking on the spot in the email/IM their
own copy of DXLabs would populate their Capture window and with
Commander set up their transceiver.
A number of my friends are also using DXLabs but rarely keep the
software running all the time (I must be crazy)... with this
functionality I can pass along the spot information quickly and
accurately.
2. Add a volatile memory 'que' of a prior spot Capture/Commander
settings... In other words, say I click on a new spot... before this
new information over-writes what is already in the Capture, DXView and
Commander screens the old information is placed in a 'FIFO settings
buffer' with a visual screen reminder... say a small floating button
bar that uses the spot's callsign as the button legends (or it could
be a side bar of Spot Collector). This spot FIFO memory que might even
hold say the last six selected spots. Now when you are done with the
current spot (either you completed the contact or you didn't) you can
optionally click on one of the prior spots in the spot que placing the
spot you were just in at the top of the que and moving the item you
selected from the que back into Capture, DXView and Commander.
Spot Collector is such a great tool but the listings can change so
rapidly and what you were looking at a few moments ago is now off the
screen altogether so you are spending critical time searching the spot
database rather than searching the airwaves.
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As ever I totally love DXLabs suite. What a fantastic programming effort.
73,
Jerry, KG6TT
