+ AA6YQ comments below
SpotCollector's prefiltering feature is very helpful.
One thing that I would appreciate is an additional filter, blocking the spots of clearly unreasonable callsigns produced by digital mode skimmers.
Recently I have seen calls like 5WGYH86QK6J, EZZE3K8A3LL, and now a few minutes ago, STZJ4GCNWEE spotted on digital modes. When the last one appeared I got an alert since I have yet to work Sudan on 40m.
There are some quite strange special event callsigns, such as OU0POLIO and DL2025B, so the filter cannot be too strict but it would be helpful if the most obvious could be blocked.
As a user option, of course.
Some ideas for rules would be
Base callsigns (with any prefix or suffix stripped) starting with a letter having more than one group of digits Base callsigns starting with a digit that is followed by more than two letters or having more than two groups of digits Base callsigns having more than two letters before the first digit
+ I've sent you a new version of SpotCollector that provides a new "Discard spots of invalid callsigns" option on the Pre-filtering window that when enabled ignores spots whose base callsigns
- start with a letter having more than one group of digits
- start with a digit that is followed by more than two letters
- have more than two groups of digits
- have more than two letters before the first digit
+ Please let me know how it goes...
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
