As long as we're talking new features.....
If you spend a lot of time in S&P mode in SS Phone, you also
spend a lot of time hitting the escape key or the backspace key.
The sequence goes like this:
Hear a station; don't recognize call; type in first few letters of
callsign; see station show up as a dupe; hit escape key to clear
call window (or backspace the requisite number of times) AND tune
up or down to look for another station to work. Towards the middle
or end of the contest, this happens A LOT.
How about a feature that would automatically clear the call window
if you tune up or down more than a specified number of Hz? This
would be similar to the AUTO S&P ENABLE feature used in the
Sprints, which switches you from CQ mode to S&P mode if you
tune up or down more than 1 KHz in 1 second.
>
> FTHOI I was playing around with some of the less-used TR cfg file
> options and ran across the one that plays a fanfare if you go without
> a QSO for a specified period of time, in my case set to 15 minutes.
> This fanfare is repeated every minute or so until you feed it a QSO.
> I figured operating QRP I conceivably could fall asleep and might
> appreciate the gentle reminder.
>
> Well, what I didn't realize is that the 15 min timer remains active
> even during \OFF periods. I found this out as I was taking a quick
> nap downstairs...and my wife (N2YL) started what can only politely be
> described as loud mumbling from the combined shack/computer room,
> words to the effect, "Would you please shut this <insert colorful
> metaphor> OFF?"
>
> I suppose someone out there actually uses this feature to wake up
> during a nap in the midst of a break. But it would be better, I
> think, were the feature to be disabled during off periods.
>
> If the wish list were of length 100, I'd put this item as 101st in
> priority, however. Not using the option is certainly an acceptable
> approach for me.
>
> 73,
>
> Gary W2CS
> Apex, NC
>
>
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