Ray, I always use the F keys. I have made a small laminated strip which
is permanently stuck on my keyboard with Bluetak. I also have several
others made up for multi-station events. The strip is a Word file, if I can
find it I will post to the reflector. BTW, when using laptops, I always
use an external keyboard. I just hate those little ones. 73/Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: Ray Benny <jbenny@rain.org>
To: NA-USER REFLECTOR <na-user@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 7:04 PM
Subject: [na-user] Troubles with ALT/K
>
> For the SS CW effort last weekend N6VR was a multi-single entry. It was
> the first time any of us had used NA. I cannot complain about NA, it
> worked very well. The problem is, that at sometime, all the operators
> hit Alt/K instead of Crtl/K to clear the qso line.
>
> Alt/K sets the keyboard into the TX keying mode, if it is setup. In our
> case, we did not set it up because we felt that it was not needed. If
> during the heat of the contest, I hit Alt/K instead of Crtl/K to clear
> (kill) the data on the qso line, the keyboard (computer) appeared to
> freeze up. I now understand that if I hit Alt/K again, everything
> returns to normal. But, not knowing this at the time, one hits any
> number of keys trying to unfreeze the keyboard, including ESC. At this
> point we are desperate, only thing to do is reboot the computer.
>
> Because we were in the multi-single category and had two rigs and
> computers networked, during the reboot period, we unknowingly lost one
> QSO on the second computer. We did not realize this until several
> hundred QSOs later, one of the computers was behind one QSO number and
> sending the wrong serial number.
>
> I will inform the ARRL of the discrepancy, but I am wondering if this is
> something others were experiencing? Should the Alt/K w/o keyboard setup
> be disabled? After searching the manual for any explanation, I now know
> to use either F11 or F12 instead.
>
> Any comments or suggestions?
>
> Ray, N6VR
>
>
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