We upgraded to Writelog 11.26E just before Field Day so it's been used in only
a few contests so far. Before 11.26 we had 11.17 installed.
During NAQP RTTY this past weekend I frequently used Auto-CQ with the F1
message. While Auto-CQing I occasionally hit Shift-F1 which was a different CQ
message for variety. One new behavior that I observed with 11.26 is that the
F1 CQ continues in Auto-CQ mode after the Shift-F1 CQ without hitting F1. I
don't recall this happening on CW in the All Asian contest when I also used
11.26.
Auto-CQing also restarted on its own after using Alt-K to send a message from
the keyboard. This was more annoying as it most frequently happened when I
used Alt-K to send "AGN AGN" to a weak caller. The caller would get covered up
by the restart of the Auto-CQ and I'd have to hit ESC to stop it and ask for
another repeat.
If I'd put the "AGN AGN" in a message then I assume that the Auto-CQ would also
have started up on its own based on the Shift-F1 behavior. Restarting the
Auto-CQ after an alternate CQ is fairly benign but restarting it after sending
a message via keyboard or a stored message is a problem.
When I got set up for NAQP RTTY I first tried transmitting with Alt-K to
verify that everything was working. One or two characters would be sent but
then the carrier would drop. Sending any message with a function key caused
Alt-K to begin to work correctly and not drop the carrier. During the contest
Alt-K reverted to this behavior several times.
73,
-Mike, N7MH
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