Dick, you need to encode your messages to send the dupes. No problem with
WriteLog. To send "599 NH", use this: %C %B5NN NH%B5NN NH
73,
Barry N1EU
P.S. Congrats on the great effort in ARRL CW!
>From: "Dick Green" <dick.green@valley.net>
>
>More ideas for improvement:
>
>1. I try to work all dupes (better chance for lower UBNs.) Therefore, my
>exchange function key contains "%C <exchange>" (no %B%B string.) When I hit
>INSERT to work a dupe, Writelog stops after the callsign is sent and does
>not send the exchange. This means I have to wake up, realize what's going
>on, and reach over to hit the exchange function key manually. Since I work
>75-100 dupes in a big contest, this is a real pain. Writelog sends the
>exchange for a dupe only if I space or tab after entering the callsign and
>before hitting INSERT. This is not desirable because I don't usually move
>the cursor out of the callsign field until the other station responds. I
>can't think of any reason why someone would want Writelog to work this way.
>Also, this doesn't seem to be what the help file says will happen for the
>Special Case: "Any characters following the %C in the memory are held until
>you tab or space out of the CALL field, or until the message being sent
>catches up to your typing, or if you stop typing for more than 1 second.
>WriteLog doesn't do any of these things -- it just stops. Resuming after
>one
>second would probably be OK, but it doesn't do that (even if you continue
>to
>enter characters in the callsign and stop typing.)
>
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