I’ve discovered a couple of problems while working the WPX RTTY contest with WL
V12. I don’t think these are problems with the WPX contest module, but may be
bugs in the V12 woodwork.
First, in the old V11 I could enter a number between 0 to 360 in the CALL field
then hit Enter and my Alpha-Spid would start turning to that beam heading.
Under V12 the same action results in nothing happening. I did discover that
because I have a keyboard shortcut key set up to turn the rotor that the
shortcut key would turn the rotor as before. I just can’t get the Enter key to
recognize a number in the CALL field and respond to it.
Second, this one really has me perplexed. I have the F10 key macro setup to
send my exchange when I am working S&P. The macro is “%R%C TU 599 %3 %3 %E”.
When I press the F10 key the message is sent with no problem, BUT the cursor
immediately disappears from the NUMB field in the Entry window and no longer
shows anywhere. I finally noticed that in the menu tool bar that the File
choice is now highlighted. If I press Enter, instead of logging the call just
worked, the list of available options under the File menu item opens for me to
make a selection there!
So when I’m working S&P I click on the call in Rttyrite to put it in the CALL
field, then hit Space to move the cursor to the NUMB field. Now I hit F11
which sends my call twice. When the station calls me back and sends his
exchange I click on his number and press F10 to send my exchange. Immediately
the cursor disappears and the File option is highlighted. The F10 message
sends ok, but now I must click in the NUMB field with the mouse to make the
cursor reappear so that I can press Enter and log the QSO. I have checked
multiple things to no avail. The keyboard short cut for F10 is just Message
10. I completely wiped out the F10 macro and retyped it thinking that there
might be an imbedded hidden control character in there somewhere, but even
after typing in the macro again the behavior is the same. I’ve tried all my
other F key and Shifted F key macros and the F10 key is the only one to show
this behavior. Not a show stopper, but a definite nuisance.
73,
Gary AL9A
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