The topic of filtering incoming spots to exclude this or that based on something in comments comes up from time to time. We don't rule it out, but there are many other things that occupy our time at the moment. But more importantly, we also sometimes have to make a judgement call about this kind of thing. Specifically, is it the rightful role of a logging program to filter out data coming to it, or is it better for the data to be stopped at the source on a per user basis( the cluster ). It seems to us that this enhancement should be one that is taken up by the makers of the cluster software. Not only does it help reduce unwanted traffic on the net or VHF connection, it also reduces unwanted traffic within the cluster software itself thereby making the cluster software less burdened.
If we provided a filter for all the cases that have been mentioned, there would be a noticeable slowdown in processing incoming spots. Nothing that couldn't be overcome, but in the end one does have to ask whether it is appropriate to do this after the fact rather than stopping it at the source. Just our opinion, Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brendan Minish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FireBrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "DXBase List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:59 AM Subject: Re: [DXBase] I found another use for filtering > Spotting beacons is VERY useful for the 6m operator. > > For example If hear the beacons from, say Norway spotting the beacon on the > cluster system is likely to attract the attention of some LA operators and > generate some activity on an otherwise dead band. > > being able to do advanced filtering of incoming spots would be nice but > there is already a work around for excluding beacons from the DX info pane. > > In the options menu alter the band mapping to exclude the beacon section of > the band(s) from the CW part of the bandplan and include it in the RTTY > part of the band (or just leave it out altogether?) and you can now use the > mode RTTY filter to exclude beacon spots > > 73 > Brendan EI6IZ > > At 17:41 27/01/2003 -0600, FireBrick wrote: > >Lately, for some reason, some people on the clusters have become enamored of > >spotting Beacons. > >Not sure what this does for the masses but it sure clutters up the screen in > >a hurry. > > > >So please record my vote for an option to filter out Clusters spots with the > >comment: Beacon > > > >And for the idiot that does this and can't spell, please include: > >Beacun. > > _______________________________________________ > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase
