Compared to the current public version of SpotCollector (10.3.0), this version

 - corrects inconsistencies and improves functionality of audio and email announcement policies

   . if the Alarm Trigger is set to "Needed or Needed & filtered", only announce counters if they are needed

   . if the Alarm Trigger is set to "SQL", only announce counters if their Realtime Award Tracking is enabled

 - if an existing Spot Database Entry that is not needed for an IOTA category (HF or VHF) is updated with an IOTA tag that is needed for an IOTA category, announces it (if the audio alarm is enabled and triggered) and sends  email (if the email alarm is enabled and triggered)

 - includes the phrase "Special Callsign" in audio and email announcements of "needed" stations present on the Special Callsign List with a Leaderboard tag

 - with the Audio or Email Alarm Trigger set to SQL, includes the phrase "Special Callsign" in audio and email announcements of a callsign present on the Special Callsign list 

 - determines whether to announce a Special Callsign with a Leaderboard tag as "needed" by considering the settings in the Leaderboard panel on the Configuration window's "Special Callsigns" tab

 - with the Audio Alarm Trigger set to "Needed" or "Needed & Filtered", only announces a new or updated Spot Database Entry’s DXCC entity and CQ zone if they are needed

 - tolerates a Spot Database Entry's StateProgress field being set to ? with WAS realtime award tracking enabled, as this can occur if SpotCollector is running without access to a log file

 - prevents an invalid callsign from generating a SC_WSJTX_Errorlog.txt file entry from WSJTXModule.QueryCache and WSJTXModule.UpdateCache 

 - in the "Audio Alarm trigger" panel on the Configuration window's "Audio Alarm" tab, provides a new "Announce needed counters only" checkbox that is enabled considered when this panel's "SQL expression" option is selected

   . if "Announce needed counters only" is unchecked, counters are only announced if their Realtime Award Tracking is enabled

   . if "Announce needed counters only" is checked, counters are only announced if they are "needed"

 - updates the CollectingWWV.htm, ConfigurationAudio.htm, ConfigurationNotifications.htm, and ConfigurationSources.htm documentation files

Many thanks to Joe W4TV for driving the above improvements to audio and email announcements, and to Don AD0K, Bob WB2NVR, Alan AA6DW, Jamie WW3S, and William K5KLA for their help with testing this version.

Notes:

1. Update your firewall and anti-malware applications to consider the new versions of SpotCollector.exe to be "safe" 

   a.  0 of 13 Jotti scanners detected malware in SpotCollector.exe or SC_WSJTX.exe

   b.  0 of 63 VirusTotal scanners detected malware in SpotCollector.exe

   c.  1 of 72 VirustTotal scanners declared SC-WSJTX.exe to be susicious, and 1 declared it to be malicious; both are false positives


2. If this upgrade doesn't work correctly, see the "After an Upgrade" section of

   http://www.dxlabsuite.com/dxlabwiki/ApplicationStoppedWorking


3. After upgrading, to revert to the previous version of SpotCollector, see

   http://www.dxlabsuite.com/dxlabwiki/RevertApplicationVersion


SpotCollector 10.3.6 is available via the DXLab Launcher, and via 

http://www.dxlabsuite.com/download.htm


      73,

               Dave, AA6YQ