Abroham Neal Software Purchases DXBase
Jack Lennox and Neal Campbell announce sale of DXBase on August 20, 2009.
Scientific Solutions, Inc. of Woodstock, GA has sold the rights and source code of DXBase to Abroham Neal Software.
In an email to all DXBase customers, Jack Lennox, CEO of Scientific Solutio1ns, said,"I wanted to let you know that we have completed the transfer of ownership for all rights to DXbase and we are in the process of getting the new owner on board... I can tell you that he brings a tremendous amount of expert programming knowledge, ham knowledge, and has been involved in many other ham related software activities."
Neal Campbell, CEO of Abroham Neal Software said in his first comment to the DXBase user base, "I am so proud to be at the helm of DXBase, thanks to Jack for deciding to give me the opportunity and, of course, establishing such a high level of professionalism over the years. I started out as a DXBase user back in the DOS days and its amazing to see the growth that has occurred since then."
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Spot 1.9.10 Released on 14 February 2009.
This release is a bug release, fixing a collection of bugs reported over the past month. One major change is the removal of the automatic update feature. The library I was using did not work as well as I wanted and I felt it was annoying people so it has been removed. I will be re-writing this function over the next few weeks.
K3NC Review in Oct., 2008 CQ Magazine
Read Neal's review of the fantastic Flex-Radio Systems Flex-5000a transceiver in the October 2007 CQ Magazine or download a pdf version from the Flex-Radio website (click here).
Neal Campbell, K3NC, Receives Software Excellence Award.
On May 17, 2008 at the FlexRadio Banquet and Forum held at the Dayton Hamvention, a Flexi Award was presented to Neal Campbell, K3NC, in honor of providing services and solutions to all Flex Radio operators. Flex-Radio stated that Flexi award were given to people who recognized an opportunity to unselfishly give of themselves a knowledge or skill that advanced the cause of software defined radio and benefited the FlexRadio community as a whole. You can read more about the Flexi awards on the FlexRadio web page at this URL: http://www.flex-radio.com/Users.aspx?topic=flexies.
LDGSwitch
A desktop program that allows full control of LDG Electronic's RTS-6 coax switch. A version for the RTS-4, called LDG4Switch, is also available.
Announcement information from Spot
Screen Details
When you connect to Spot, the program will request the latest 50 spots from the DXCluster and enter the data in this information display. As new announcements are received, Spot adds them here so you always have the most recent announcement information.
Spot adds a couple of enhancements called Bottom of Band announcements (BoB) which are those pseudo-spots that people make and just put something in the spot comment field they want everyone to see. Usually (but not always!) the mark the frequency of these spots as the bottom of some particular band (e.g., 14000.0. 3500.0) Spot has an option that allows you to specify any dx spot made on the bottom of bands to be treated as announcements, and add them to this window.
Since the callsign is usually not important, sometimes this DX spot abusers will enter the latest, most wanted DX callsign as the spotted station in the Bottom-of-Band announcements which can wreck blood pressure and cause accidents while you tish to the radio to snag these "new ones". So, Spot allows you to filter them out of the dx spot window if you so choose.
You can also see the announcement assistant has been activated by clicking on the Ann button below the announcement information display. This assistant lets you automatically retrieve various numbers of prior announcements, clear the announcement display, as well as make an announcement without remembering the DXCluster syntax.
