It might help if newbies had a better startup configuration.
Anybody ever tried sharing a working ini file? Take a working, proven
writelog.ini file, minimally edit it to fit (I presume just op's name and
call if paths and display screens are "standard"), and insert it in the
folder. Then - (as if by magic) - WriteLog starts up the way most of us use
it (?). If it worked, this might get a newbie up and running quickly.
Maybe somebody could prepare "standard" files for each of the three modes
and a writeup on how to edit them to fit.
Would be helpful to comment the files to explain what the different parts
do and what the numbers mean (as I recall, some of them are pretty cryptic).
Jerry W4UK
At 03:31 9/28/02 -0500, WA9ALS - John wrote:
> > Surely this is not the way this works! Send a CQ from the main WL screen,
> > click on the RTTYWrite window to see who answers, click back to main WL
> > screen to send the exchange, click again to RTTYWrite to see the response,
> > jump between to clean up the log entry and enter the QSO? And then do it
>all
> > over again for the next QSO?
>
>There, there, don't fret! No, rest assured it doesn't work that way. You
>must be covering up your Rttyrite screen when you're in the logging window?
>UNdock most, if not all, of the windows so they are free of the main logging
>window. You should keep the cursor in the ENTRY area most of the time, and
>still be able to see the Rttyrite window. Callsign highlighting is working
>just swell for me, but I have Don's SuperCheckPartial file.
>
> > The little packet/telnet window is a joke...or is it? Can the .ini file be
> > modified to offer a choice of telnet nodes? Can't see how. I put a stack
>of
> > addresses in the .ini file, but WL takes the first one it comes to, and
> > ignores the others. Can you click on a spot and have the radio go there?
> > Can't see how. But DX4WIN, which is not a contesting program, does these
> > things.
>
>You can specify what nodes you like - I'm a little too tired to remember
>right now, and I use DX Telnet, but there's a file in the Program folder (I
>think), that's named something like tcp/dat - You can modify that with a
>text editor and then you will see your favorite choices to choose from.
>
>If you ever decide to use DXT with WL, check out Don's pages and also mine
>at www.qsl.net/wa9als/dxtelnet.htm.
>
> > OK, OK I haven't camped out on the K9JY and AA5AU websites. But I did not
> > wait until 30 minutes before the contest, either. :-)
>
>Is there something wrong with waiting 30 min before the contest to do stuff?
>;-))
>
> > Just point me in the general direction of the answers--I am not averse to
> > reading. But it should not take more research than an advanced degree.
>
>I have several advanced degrees, but I'm still very dense when it comes to
>this stuff!
>
> > Thanks in advance. I am having fun in the contest--but my wrist aches.
>
>My EVERYTHING aches, and it's only Friday night!
>
>Hang in there - WriteLog's the best! If it seems hard, you just haven't
>learned how to do it easy yet.
>73 - John (WA9ALS)
>
>
>
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