As I recall, when I noticed this problem the contact was indeed logged
before the exchange had been sent. I don't know what triggered it to
be logged, though. I do not think that I had hit the Enter key or
selected another callsign. I never noticed this while running, only
on S&P reports. And typically I won't be selecting another callsign
in the middle of an S&P contact. I do think that the problem usually
occurred during a Q where I had selected the callsign from the bandmap
window.
73
Bob KG3F
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Mike Heideman <mike_heideman@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've observed the same behavior many times on CW and RTTY. It happens when
> you log the QSO before the exchange message has finished sending the other
> station's callsign. Hitting the message key again will send the full correct
> message. I suspect this is a WL bug since I can't imagine why this behavior
> would be desired.
>
> This most frequently happens to me on CW while running when using a single
> radio and I copy a second callsign and want to type it before I forget it.
> In a contest such as CQWW where the exchange is predictable I'll hit F2 to
> send the exchange then immediately hit Enter or Ctrl-Enter to log the QSO,
> anticipating that the other station will simply send the prefilled exchange.
> As I prepare to type in the other callsign the CW stops after sending the
> first callsign. Hitting F2 again resends the whole exchange to the first
> station.
>
> It could be that hitting Enter while a message is being transmitted is what
> triggers this weird behavior. If Enter is hit after the callsign has been
> sent then the remainder of the message is successfully transmitted. There
> may be other scenarios that cause this. I avoid using the mouse during all
> contests so I always type in callsigns even in RTTY contests and run into the
> same problem on RTTY.
>
> -Mike, N7MH
>
> Bob KG3F wrote:
>> I saw the same problem that AI9T describes below. Our S&P report
>> macro would often send only the callsign and then sit there diddling.
>> I never thought to try and hit the key again to see if it would then
>> send the report. I ended up using ALT-K to send the report.
>
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