DATABASE BAR is hidden by default but easily accessible by clicking the SLIDER button on SLIDER. 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 SLIDER button (or press the "T" key for full TEXTSCREEN) 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, PAL and TOMCAT buttons. These can be used to select either the station database (see TURTLE for more details) or the logging database (see TOMCAT for more details). The PAL interface is currently under construction: at the moment the PAL function downloads and opens the latest PAL (Pacific-Asian Log) in a separate window.
DATABASE FILTER/LAYOUT buttons can be used for further restriction of the stations listed/shown on the result list/MAPS/FLAGS. This section describes the DATABASE FILTERS/LAYOUT available for TURTLE (see TOMCAT help for description of the filters available in TOMCAT database) You can move the mouse cursor over the colored buttons (=FREQ,TEXT,STOCK,ALL) and click or scroll (using the mouse wheel or the left/right arrow keys) to rotate the allowed values:
SHOW (FREQ) (show stations on the current frequency) > SHOW (TAGGED) (show tagged stations only, see P-TAGS help for more information) > SHOW (MW) (show search results from the whole database for a given text). In addition,
FIND (TEXT) > Triggers TEXTBOX, the free text search feature (more details below)
SIZE (SMALL | STOCK | BIG | MAX) > Changes the text size of the database rows
You can make DATABASE BAR permanently visible (even if SLIDER window is closed) by ticking TOOLBAR > SETTINGS > GRAPHICS+ > FAT TOP.
Clicking the black SHOW button resets all these buttons, clicking the black INCLUDE button resets the tx power filter.
If you click the (TEXT) button or select SHOW (MW), 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 "FIND" 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).
The search is done from the current frequency (if "SHOW (FREQ)" is active) or from the whole database (if "SHOW (MW)" is active).
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.
STATE+ SEARCH (North America)
The standard U.S. state search shows the stations on TURTLE / MAPS / GLOBAL FLAGS based on the selected state; for example, the search word GA picks all the stations from Georgia.
In addition, you can use the STATE+ search: by giving GA+ the system shows all the stations from Georgia and its neighboring states, so the result set covers all the stations from AL, GA, FL, NC, SC and TN. This "plus option" is available for all U.S. states (in addition AK+ and HI+ both give stations from the AK,HI pair).