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EchoLink User's Guide
The Explorer View can also be navigated using the keyboard. For details, see
Keyboard Shortcuts (p. 44).
Explorer View also includes special folders for Alarms, Favorites, and New stations,
containing information not available in Index View. Each type of folder is described
below.
Locations
This folder contains logged-on stations organized by continent and country. Because
of the large number of stations in the United States, U.S. stations are further broken
down by call area.
Note: Location information is based solely on ITU callsign prefix, not on other
categorizations such as DXCC entities. For this reason, stations in offshore territories
appear in the same folder as stations in their recognized nation, even if they may be
located in a different part of the world.
Node Types
This folder contains sub-folders for each of the four node types. Each station in the
Locations folder is also listed here.
New
This folder contains stations that have logged on to EchoLink since the last time the
list was "refreshed". Normally, the list refreshes itself every 5 minutes. You can also
refresh the list by pressing F5, or clicking the Refresh icon in the toolbar. Each time
the list is refreshed, the contents of the New folder are cleared and updated.
Stations in the New folder also appear in the Locations and Node Types folders.
Alarms
This folder contains stations that have been added to your Alarms list. These
stations may or not be currently logged on. If a station is logged off, its callsign
appears in gray text, rather than black or blue, and its icon is dimmed. An alarm will
sound when EchoLink detects that any of the stations in this list log on, log off, or
change status. (This notification is not immediate, since it depends on periodic
updates to the Station List.)
Favorites
This folder contains stations that you have placed into it for future reference. This
makes it easy to locate certain "favorite" stations, even when many stations are
logged on. You can create your own sub-folders in Favorites to organize stations into
groups. You can also have each new QSO added to Favorites automatically; see
Preferences (p. 16).
Adding Stations to Alarms or Favorites
You can add a station to Alarms or Favorites in several ways:
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Right-click the station's callsign (in any other folder), and choose Add to
Alarms or Add to Favorites. If the station is already in either of these folders,
the corresponding choice will be dimmed.
Use the mouse to "drag" a station (or several stations) from a list on the
right-hand side into the Favorites or Alarms folders on the left-hand side,
then release the mouse button to "drop" it. You can also drag and drop an
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