In the recent discussions about NA field sequences in SS, it occurs to me that
many new NA users might not be aware of the spacebar for moving between fields.
If you only use the tab or shift-tab keys, it might not be very convenient.
However, the spacebar is easier to hit, and takes care of the sequencing for
you.
The spacebar is intended to be the key you use most of the time when moving
between fields. In a "599" contest, the spacebar will move you out of the
callsign field, automatically past the RST and into the exchanged data field
(zone, power, etc.). Pressing it again will take you back to the callsign
field. Unless you specifically need to adjust the rcvd RST, there is no need
for tab/shift-tab.
In SS, the cursor starts in the callsign field. Pressing space takes you
automatically to the number field, then prec, call, check, then section. Once
you hit the end of the line, on the second pass through the fields the space
bar simply goes to the next field. Once you get used to it, you can move
around the SS fields pretty adroitly by just whapping the space bar.
Hope this info might be useful to new users. Just in case you're wondering,
this IS documented in the manual...
73, Dave/K8CC
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