[Xastir] Feature tweak? proximity sound alerts.

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Kirk Mefford wrote:

> The main feature other than multiple map windows that I like about Winaprs
> is the way they do proximity alerts.  You can select which station or
> stations you want to sound the alerts instead of any and all
> stations.  This limitation was very obvious where I used to live and had a
> home station about 1200 feet from my location.  I could not use proximity
> alerts with xastir without hearing the alert every 30 minutes when that
> station would TX.
>
> Before I ran across Xastir and used Winaprs it was very handy to select my
> truck for proximity alerts so my wife could tell when I was almost home
> from work etc.
>
> I'm not sure which would be easier to implement but I'd like to see either
> a way to filter out certain stations from the alerts or have it selectable
> by station.

Please add such ideas to the Feature Request list on the Xastir
SourceForge web pages.  Suggestions like this in e-mail end up
getting lost in all the other e-mail in a short amount of time.

Thanks!

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