DATABASE BAR is hidden by default but easily accessible by clicking the upper SLIDER button. DATABASE BAR can be used for controlling the target continent (also for MAPS) and stations to be listed on the text area below DATABASE BAR (and on MAPS). By default all stations ("WORLD") are shown for the selected frequency using the TURTLE station database.
DATABASE BAR contains the following buttons:
Click the SLIDER button (or press the "T" key) to get DATABASE BAR visible. Continents can be selected by clicking the corresponding button. "WORLD" can be used to select all the stations from all the continents.
When the mouse is moved to the center area, you will see the TURTLE and MORE buttons. TURTLE button can be used to select the station database (see TURTLE for more details), MORE button can be used to select an alternative database to be displayed: a small popup menu appears with entries for TOMCAT, USA TIS, CATBOOK and PAL:
The leftmost continent button ("WORLD") can be used to combine several continents into one "DX TARGET AREA" in the output: clicking WORLD (or scrolling over the WORLD button) rotates the available DX areas: either WORLD > EMEA > EAST (if your kHz stepping is 9 kHz) or WORLD > NAMEX > CASA (if your kHz stepping 1s 10 kHz). EMEA consists of Europe, Africa and Asia up to 62 degrees Eastern latitude (covering Iran etc.), EAST covers the rest of Asia. NAMEX covers the North America and Mexico, CASA covers the rest of the Americas.
DATABASE FILTER/SEARCH buttons can be used for further restriction of the stations listed/shown on the result list/MAPS/FLAGS. This section describes the DATABASE FILTERS/SEARCH available for TURTLE (see TOMCAT help for description of the filters available in TOMCAT database). You can move the mouse cursor next to the TARGET, FIND, TAG, POWER buttons (the button color changes when activated) and click or scroll (using the mouse wheel or the left/right arrow keys) to rotate the allowed values:
TARGET (FREQ). This value is fixed as your current playback frequency. However, if you are viewing your DX history and selected CATBOOK as your database, you can toggle between the current playback frequency and "MW" by clicking this button. MW shows the results covering all frequencies on MW using the database filters you have activated.
FIND (TEXT) > Triggers TEXTBOX, the free text search feature (more details below)
TAG (ALL | WHITE | RED | BLACK | BLUE | GREEN). Show stations based on the P-TAGS (see P-TAGS for more information)
You can make DATABASE BAR permanently visible (even if SLIDER window is closed) by defining SETTINGS > GRAPHICS > FAT_TOP > YES.
Clicking the EXIT button resets the corresponding database filter.
If you click the (TEXT) button, TEXTBOX will appear:
The keyboard focus is automatically given to the textbox so you can type the desired search word. It can be any full or partial name, callsign, state, offset, network, slogan, etc. You don't have to worry about the big/small characters, all searches are non case-sensitive, so for example when searching stations located in Florida you can type FL, Fl or fl (note: if you have selected North America as the active continent and the search word contains only two characters, the search word is automatically interpreted as "US STATE" so any other row containing that string will not be included in the result).
After you have given the search word, press enter or click "GO" and the results will be shown in the TURTLE window/map. If you have any SPECTRUM display visible, the FLAGS are updated based on the search result.
TEXTBOX is not closed when you tune frequencies. This is useful if you find regional hotspot reception areas: you can keep the desired filter active all the time when changing frequencies. For example if you have made that "FL" search, tuning the frequencies will show only the stations located in Florida on each frequency. Or you can blank the text in TEXTBOX and keep it open by default (ready to serve when needed).
If NA (North America) continent has been selected, plain K given shows the stations with the call sign beginning with K and plain W shows the stations with the call sign beginning with W.
The search is done from the current frequency (if "TARGET (FREQ)" is active) or from the whole database (if "TARGET (MW)" is active, CATBOOK only).
If you have selected "North America" as your active continent and give a US call sign as a search word to TEXTBOX, JAGUAR will fetch it - but not only that. In these cases JAGUAR will use the PHONETIC CALL SIGN SEARCH to display also other "photenically possible" alternatives (note that this will replace the earlier phonetic call sign search function, so here there's no need to give ? as the first character). For example, if you are on AM 1450 and hear something like "KVDK", you can type KVDK
and press ENTER. The result set contains all the stations on AM 1450 that can phonetically match that, in this case:
KEZJ
KVCK
KZZJ
Thanks to OJS for creating the phonetic character matching table. In addition, you can also use wild cards (* = any character is accepted) in your callsign query. For example, if you enter: KQ** on AM 1400, the result set gives the station callsigns starting with KQ and KU:
KQMS
KUKI
KUNX
KQDJ
KUNO
FM frequency given in the announcement can often help in nailing the identity of the NA station heard. However sometimes you can hear it only partially, in those cases JAGUAR's WILDCARD FM SEARCH can save a lot of time. You can add a wildcard (*) to the search word in TEXTBOX, for example
10*.9
or
9*.1
and JAGUAR will fetch only the stations with matching FM frequencies. You can set the wildcard to any position in the FM frequency.