User's Guide

Adjusting Views
FasTrac Millennium User’s Guide – May 2003
3.5.20 Highlighting Your Spotter Network On-Air
The SpotterNet feature, which Millennium users can access through the SpotterNet hot
button, gives you the opportunity to show the positions of your storm spotters in the field
to your viewers.
Setting Up Your SpotterNet Database
1. Right-click the SpotterNet hot
button to open the SpotterNet
Database menu.
2. The existing list of spotters appears
in the pull-down list at the top of the
menu. To add a new spotter, click
Add Spotter.
3. Type in identification data for the
spotter in the Name, Location,
Phone Number, and Comment
textboxes.
4. Enter the maximum range at which the spotter icon should appear in the Show range
(miles) textbox.
5. Enter the geographic coordinates at which you want the icon to appear in the Latitude
and Longitude textboxes, or click on the desired spot on the view with the map pointer
and then click the Lat/Lon Map Edit button to automatically set coordinates.
6. Click Show on Map to set the spotter’s icon to appear when your view is in range and
SpotterNet is toggled on.
Checking Trained Spotter causes the system to identify the spotter as trained when you
click on his or her icon.
Blink me makes the spotter’s icon appear to blink on the view, making it easier to identify.
The Delete Spotter button lets you remove the spotter whose data currently appears on the
menu.
Using SpotterNet On-Air
Once your SpotterNet database is set up, using it during a broadcast is a
matter of left-clicking on the SpotterNet hot button to toggle on the icons
you want to display. You can then indicate one of the icons near the
weather pattern while mentioning to your viewers that you are receiving a
live report from the spotter at that location. You can also left-click on the
icon to open a small menu providing some of the data you entered about
the spotter, to facilitate correct identification.
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