SpotCollector Online Help Contents
SpotCollector's Configuration screen provides eight tabs:
the General tab
specifies your callsign and location
specifies the transceiver mode to be used for RTTY spots
specifies the transceiver mode to be used for CW spots
specifies the file containing sub-band definitions
contains settings that govern the
presentation of online help
the Spot Sources tab
specifies the telnet-accessible DXClusters, PacketCluster, and Internet
Relay Chat (IRC) channel from which spots
are received for inclusion in the Spot Database
the Display Fonts tab
contains settings that control the color-coding and font selection of
information shown in DXCluster windows, the IRC window, the PacketCluster
window, and the Spot
Database window
the Spot Database tab contains settings that control
the validity of incoming spots
the combination of incoming spots to create Spot Database entries
the width of the Spot Database frequency filter
the display of Spot Database entries on web browsers accessible via a local area network (LAN)
the pruning of Spot Database entries that are no longer
needed
the Entity
Overrides
tab allows you to specify up to 16 callsigns and their
associated DXCC entities. You can use this mechanism to handle DX callsigns
that do not conform to standard prefix allocations. If DXView
is installed, both it and DXKeeper
will be be governed by these Entity Overrides. You can also be specify or
modify Entity Overrides via the Entity Overrides tab on DXView's
Configuration window; any such changes will be reflected in SpotCollector's
Entity Overrides tab.
the TNC Serial Port tab lets
you configure the serial port by which your
TNC is connected
the Audio
tab lets you control the audio announcement function
the Special Callsigns tab allows you to
specify callsigns to be ignored when spotted
tag callsigns that associated with groups or activities