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Re: [WriteLog] WriteLog Digest, Vol 158, Issue 18

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Subject: Re: [WriteLog] WriteLog Digest, Vol 158, Issue 18
From: Nick <nrsmith@citlink.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 09:38:59 -0600
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I worked the entire WPX without the insert key working as it should. It will send the message but will not send the callsign.. I have to click on the highlighted callsign and that puts it in the callsign field and then send. It was not that bad but it did slow me down and it is not my normal procedure. I would like to have it as it should be.

Nick
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Today's Topics:

    1. Re: WriteLog Digest, Vol 158, Issue 17 (Nicholas Smith)
    2. Re: WriteLog Digest, Vol 158, Issue 17 (Gary AL9A)
    3. Re: WriteLog Digest, Vol 158, Issue 17 (Gary AL9A)
    4. Problems with V12 in WPX (Gary AL9A)
    5. Re: Problems with V12 in WPX (Ken Widelitz)
    6. Re: Problems with V12 in WPX (joeduerbusch)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 12:46:51 -0600
From: Nicholas Smith <nrsmith@citlink.net>
To: writelog@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] WriteLog Digest, Vol 158, Issue 17
Message-ID: <56BE289B.4070302@citlink.net>
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Gary, this is the situation:

When is it you are pressing the Insert key?  Is is to capture a highlighted
call from the Rttyrite window, populate the CALL field and then send your
exchange? YES

I am using 2Tone and it is highlighting the call sign, but insert will sent the 
exchange but will not put the call in the window, thus no callsign is sent.
Very confusing and frustrating.

Thanks Gary hope we can get this corrected.
73,
Nick
w4gkm



On 2/12/16 11:00 AM, writelog-request@contesting.com wrote:
When is it you are pressing the Insert key?  Is is to capture a highlighted
call from the Rttyrite window, populate the CALL field and then send your
exchange?


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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 10:46:42 -0900
From: "Gary AL9A" <al9a@mtaonline.net>
To: <writelog@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] WriteLog Digest, Vol 158, Issue 17
Message-ID: <F43514955B164822A164DDA74EFB8450@DESKTOPD0V483N>
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        reply-type=response

Nick,

I'm not sure on this one, but...

Are you using 2Tone for TX as well as RX?  If so I think the Insert key
functionality to send the Call + Exchange may only work correctly in a MMTTY
window.  I can't prove it at the moment as my MMTTY window under V12 has
stopped highlighting calls in the MMTTY window.  Without the highlighting
the Insert key won't function at all!  Both my 2Tone clone windows will
highlight calls and I can populate the CALL field with a left mouse click,
but then must use the Enter key to send the Call + exchange.  Also this
morning with the "Minor Radio Blackout" conditions I am unable to hear any
RTTY signals so I can't play around with making changes to see if they work.

You might try opening up a MMTTY window and use that as your TX window
instead of 2Tone to see if the Insert key functionality returns or not.

73,
Gary AL9A



-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Smith
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 9:46 AM
To: writelog@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] WriteLog Digest, Vol 158, Issue 17

Gary, this is the situation:

When is it you are pressing the Insert key?  Is is to capture a highlighted
call from the Rttyrite window, populate the CALL field and then send your
exchange? YES

I am using 2Tone and it is highlighting the call sign, but insert will sent
the exchange but will not put the call in the window, thus no callsign is
sent.
Very confusing and frustrating.

Thanks Gary hope we can get this corrected.
73,
Nick
w4gkm



On 2/12/16 11:00 AM, writelog-request@contesting.com wrote:
When is it you are pressing the Insert key?  Is is to capture a
highlighted
call from the Rttyrite window, populate the CALL field and then send your
exchange?
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 11:03:33 -0900
From: "Gary AL9A" <al9a@mtaonline.net>
To: <writelog@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] WriteLog Digest, Vol 158, Issue 17
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Nick,

I just fixed my problem with no highlighting in the MMTTY screen!  When I
started WL the Rttyrite window opened and I could finally hear a single call
FW5FF.  It would print the call ok, but no highlighting yet.  Then I
remembered that the Makrothen contest module exhibits this same behavior
from time to time and the fix there is to close Rttyrite and then
immediately reopen it.  So I closed my Rttyrite window and then reopened it,
but this time I used the RTTY icon in the top toolbar rather than the
Windows/RTTY Window menu selection.  Not sure if that made a difference or
not, but when the Rttyrite window reopened I suddenly was getting
highlighting of calls.  Most of them I can't hear, but when FW5FF sends a
call with his exchange that call highlights.

So now that I have highlighting functioning again I can confirm that the
Insert key works as before.  Press Insert and the call populates the CALL
field and the exchange is sent, including that call.  Again, this is from a
window running MMTTY as the TX window, not 2Tone.

73,
Gary AL9A

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary AL9A
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 10:46 AM
To: writelog@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] WriteLog Digest, Vol 158, Issue 17

Nick,

I'm not sure on this one, but...

Are you using 2Tone for TX as well as RX?  If so I think the Insert key
functionality to send the Call + Exchange may only work correctly in a MMTTY
window.  I can't prove it at the moment as my MMTTY window under V12 has
stopped highlighting calls in the MMTTY window.  Without the highlighting
the Insert key won't function at all!  Both my 2Tone clone windows will
highlight calls and I can populate the CALL field with a left mouse click,
but then must use the Enter key to send the Call + exchange.  Also this
morning with the "Minor Radio Blackout" conditions I am unable to hear any
RTTY signals so I can't play around with making changes to see if they work.

You might try opening up a MMTTY window and use that as your TX window
instead of 2Tone to see if the Insert key functionality returns or not.

73,
Gary AL9A



-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Smith
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 9:46 AM
To: writelog@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] WriteLog Digest, Vol 158, Issue 17

Gary, this is the situation:

When is it you are pressing the Insert key?  Is is to capture a highlighted
call from the Rttyrite window, populate the CALL field and then send your
exchange? YES

I am using 2Tone and it is highlighting the call sign, but insert will sent
the exchange but will not put the call in the window, thus no callsign is
sent.
Very confusing and frustrating.

Thanks Gary hope we can get this corrected.
73,
Nick
w4gkm




On 2/12/16 11:00 AM, writelog-request@contesting.com wrote:
When is it you are pressing the Insert key?  Is is to capture a
highlighted
call from the Rttyrite window, populate the CALL field and then send your
exchange?
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 22:48:03 -0900
From: "Gary AL9A" <al9a@mtaonline.net>
To: "WriteLog Reflector" <writelog@contesting.com>
Subject: [WriteLog] Problems with V12 in WPX
Message-ID: <6293120895574F06AC5E5439B438B855@DESKTOPD0V483N>
Content-Type: text/plain;       charset="UTF-8"

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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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 00:00:22 -0800
From: "Ken Widelitz" <widelitz@gte.net>
To: "'Gary AL9A'" <al9a@mtaonline.net>, "'WriteLog Reflector'"
        <writelog@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Problems with V12 in WPX
Message-ID: <00c501d16634$c65421b0$52fc6510$@gte.net>
Content-Type: text/plain;       charset="us-ascii"

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!

I had a similar experience with the cursor disappearing in CW from the
bottom call entry window in SO2R and then upon clicking the call field, the
cursor showed up in the top call entry window. I believe that was in NAQP.

73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT



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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 15:41:18 +0000
From: joeduerbusch <k0bx@arrl.net>
To: Gary AL9A <al9a@mtaonline.net>
Cc: WriteLog Reflector <writelog@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Problems with V12 in WPX
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Gary, on the rotor control, put the beam heading in the Entry window, but
instead of hitting the Entry Key, hit this Rotor shortcut key you setup.
Senior moment.

Joe K0BX


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On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 7:48 AM, Gary AL9A <al9a@mtaonline.net> wrote:

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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