Is there an easy way to track bands and modes for a specific, currently active DX-expedition?
Right now I’m creating a trigger rule for the callsign and the mode, and then selecting which bands should trigger. As I work them, I manually remove bands from the trigger rule. This also means I need to create three separate rules for each station I want to track: CW, SSB, and Digital.
I’ve tried using only the callsign and the band slots, but that produces no hits at all (if I’ve already worked the country).
What I really want is to track all expeditions on all band/mode slots — not only the new, unworked ones.
Has anyone found a good way to do this, or am I missing something?
73 de Jonny, SM5TOG
I create an entry, per mode (CW, Phone, Digital) for the specific call, for the band/s I want to know about; limiting the spotter to ‘local’ (based on which direction too, east or west of me).
This has worked well, BUT you must update the triggers after each QSO.
Why exclude a spotter call? Because he is rent a rig so his spots could be from the wrong zone causing a false alarm.
Because it is call specific; repeat as needed but you could try adding other DXpedition calls in as well, which may/not match your band mode needs.
Yes, I may have several trigger sets when there are many teams in the field. That’s where cloning the triggers takes up less time; copy/clone, adjust the trigger, save, repeat.
Hi, and thanks for your reply.
I’m doing exactly as you describe, and it works, but it requires quite a lot of manual work. I was hoping there would be a simpler way, but I guess that would require having my entire log uploaded to HamAlert.
73 de Jonny, SM5TOG
