SOTAWATCH Filters

Is there a way of filtering spots and alerts to only include multiple associations (not just one)?

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Yes, you can use the ‘pipe’ character, the straight up character often above the backslash depending on your keyboard layout,

Something like ^G|^EI|^W4C would get all spots for summit references starting with G, starting with EI and starting with W4C

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Brilliant thanks. Is that documented anywhere? The example box doesn’t show that.

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Documentation? I just write the code :rofl:

It was listed in the original release notes on here but it has been a while since that was released

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No problem. I was trying to find the manual to RTFM but I’m feeling vindicated now! I’m tending to activate on 2m FM so in general I only want to see spots from local associations. I tried + & and spaces first.

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I see it’s a basic text string search so including GM/ can throw up the odd unexpected result. No big deal.

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Try

^GM/

The caret anchors the search to the start.

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Thanks. That led me down a Regular Expression rabbit hole that resulted in this search term. I’m guessing there’s a more elegant way though?

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Summit reference starts with G, I would do as:

^G.*/

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While we’re here is it possible to choose 2 modes instead of either all modes or just one? I would like to select fm & ssb only as they’re my main interest at present. 73 all.

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No, that’s a bit harder to manage due to the API’s interaction with the database and I have yet to find a nice solution to it.

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Maybe the venerable SOTAwatch Filter would help you for this?

https://on6zq.be/p/swf/index.html

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Thanks Christophe, that seems to work! 73 John G0MHF

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OK Andrew, noted, thanks for the info. 73 John G0MHF