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Re: [WriteLog] some post WAE RTTY thoughts etc.

To: Jeff Stai <wk6i.jeff@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] some post WAE RTTY thoughts etc.
From: Randy Thompson <k5zd@outlook.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 02:04:12 +0000
List-post: <mailto:writelog@contesting.com>
“You can go back in RTTYrite and reclick the QTCs. The very good news is that 
Writelog will overwrite the bad entry with the reclick. You don't have to 
erase. “

I can confirm that it does this. Even if you happened to have your cursor in 
the wrong row!



From: Jeff Stai <wk6i.jeff@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2020 8:26 PM
To: Randy Thompson <k5zd@outlook.com>
Cc: Writelog Reflector <writelog@contesting.com>; Wayne <support@writelog.com>
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] some post WAE RTTY thoughts etc.

I can help! See below - 73 jeff wk6i

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 4:40 PM Randy Thompson 
<k5zd@outlook.com<mailto:k5zd@outlook.com>> wrote:
I was wishing I could edit some of the QTC related messages myself.

I didn't even realize there was a key to ask for the repeat of a particular 
QTC.  I was using Alt-K each time!  It's alt-<number>?

Yes. Suggest reviewing the great writeup on 
rttycontesting.com<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Frttycontesting.com%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7C47e8f5a12f3c4596b8bc08d88a97c0bc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637411731655611470%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=IOQm1rwY6GiRbI5PiWDZiEf6wRLi2%2F6eKSgMwi8kopM%3D&reserved=0>
 and also search the Writelog help for QTC.

What was most maddening was not being able to cut and paste text between rows 
of the QTC receive box.  I had to retype most of several QTCs because I missed 
one message at the beginning.

You can go back in RTTYrite and reclick the QTCs. The very good news is that 
Writelog will overwrite the bad entry with the reclick. You don't have to erase.

Other than that, WL was great!  I had over 1700 QTC both sent and received.

Yes you did in fact kick butt this weekend :) WL *was* great, my suggestions 
are incremental.


Randy K5ZD


-----Original Message-----
From: WriteLog 
<writelog-bounces@contesting.com<mailto:writelog-bounces@contesting.com>> On 
Behalf Of Jeff Stai
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2020 6:46 PM
To: Writelog Reflector 
<writelog@contesting.com<mailto:writelog@contesting.com>>; Wayne 
<support@writelog.com<mailto:support@writelog.com>>
Subject: [WriteLog] some post WAE RTTY thoughts etc.

Question: There are times in mid contest when it would be helpful to verify a 
setting in the "ini file". Short of creating a snapshot at startup is there a 
more direct way of looking at the settings that I am missing?

The rest here is thoughts about incremental improvements to a QTC system that 
is both useful and fun.

Often during a contest I find I am editing some messages to meet changing 
conditions. During WAE I found the setting of the QTC fill request message to 
be problematic in fluttery conditions and I wanted to change it. But that one 
message is buried in the ini file. Could it be moved someplace else more 
accessible? How about the Contest Parameter dialog as one possibility?

On the fly I discovered that defined macro shortcut keys don't work when the 
alt-R and alt-S dialogs are open - or at least the punctuation key I have 
assigned to do the alt-K function, which is often needed. That's fine, but 
could we then have some more buttons in the dialogs? Maybe a couple that could 
be assigned to any message buffer (for example an "ALL AGN"
message) and one that invokes alt-K?

If you could click on the numbers on the left side of the alt-R dialog as the 
equivalent of typing alt-number that would really reduce the number of 
transitions between keyboard and mouse during fills in RTTY. (If that also 
positions the cursor in the corresponding field, bonus!)

Also I noticed on the fly that clicking on any unhighlighted text did not copy 
to the cursor location in the alt-R QTC list. The example was where I had half 
the QTC correct in one place in RTTYrite and the other half in another place. I 
just wanted to click-click and clean up extraneous but it wouldn't do it. I of 
course ended up typing it all in, but anything that can help reduce fill 
requests is appreciated.

There is no direct way to request a repeat of the initial group serial number 
and QTC count, or to send a fill of it. (There doesn't seem to be a standard 
name for it, actually...?).

Thanks for listening - 73 jeff wk6i

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