On 24 Feb 99, at 11:19, n6tr@teleport.com wrote:
> > I'm in S&P mode. I hear someone send a power, so I dump that in the
> > exchange window. Then he sends his call (perhaps he's only signing every
> > two or three Qs) and I put the call in the exchange window. Then I hit
> > <ENTER> to call him. TR's state machine doesn't seem to understand that I
> > haven't called him before. It believes (erroneously) that because there is
> > already an entry in the exchange field, it's already called the guy. So
> > instead of sending N7DR, it sends 599CO, which makes me sound like even
> > more of a lid than I really am.
>
> So, the program is busy updating the log files on your hard drive and
> pressing any key on the keyboard will not be processed until the
> hard drive activity is completed.
>
> Running SMARTDRV will elimiante this delay.
>
But this begs the (more important) question as to why TR thinks I'm
completing the QSO when I've never even called the guy.
To reiterate:
If I've put an entry in the exchange window, and then put the other
station's call in the call window, and then hit <ENTER>, TR currently seems
to think that I'm completing a QSO, so it goes off into it's "updating the
disk" routine while it's sending the exchange. But I haven't even sent my
call yet, so it certainly shouldn't be logging the QSO (or sending the
exchange).
TR should be smart enough to realise that I haven't yet sent my call and do
NOTHING to log the QSO at this point -- because the QSO can't possibly be
complete. Hitting <ENTER> should just send my call in this situation, as it
would if I had not put anything in the exchange window. Shouldn't it?
(And then the NEXT time I hit <ENTER> it should log the QSO [since I've
sent my call at that point].)
Doc N7DR
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