[Xastir] Audio alarms quirk !

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Tony Hunt wrote:

> I wonder if anyone else has noticed this quirk in the Bandopening audio
> alarm ?

I'm not sure how many people use that option.  I don't because I
never took the time to understand what it might be used for.


> If a frame is received via a Igate (3rd party frame) it still has the
> ability to trigger the Bandopening alarm which is a bit odd in that if a
> message comes through an Igate from afar then often the Igate puts the
> corresponding Posit to RF for the remote station.
>
> A simple check of the frames nature (3rd party or not) before qualifying as
> real DX would make this excellent feature more useful at my QTH otherwise I
> will never enable it.
> This could not be too hard to include.
>
> Maybee this has already been addressed . I am using xastir 1.93

No changes have been done to that part of the code in many years.

Open a bug report on SourceForge about it.

-- 
Curt, WE7U.				archer at eskimo dot com
http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
   Lotto:  A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown
Windows:  Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U.
The world DOES revolve around me:  I picked the coordinate system!"