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Subject: [TRLog] TR RTTY - Can't Stop Message with Escape
From: k4ro@k4ro.net (K4RO Kirk Pickering)
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 02:46:35 -0500
I used VE3IAY's config files (thanks Rich!) as a template 
for the RTTY Sprint, and it worked very well.  Very well, 
with one exception which drove me (and probably everyone 
I stepped on) completely mad.

Hitting Escape would not terminate a message sent with a
function key.  The only way I could stop an unwanted F-key
transmission was to power off the PK-232 (!), or hit F10/Esc
several times in a row.  This was downright maddening in
the Sprint, and I'm sorry to everyone I tortured when I 
hit the wrong key.  It usually happened when I S&P'ed someone
and was in CQ mode instead of S&P.   Lots of ARRRgghhh!!!!

Escape properly aborts the F10 command, (:) but I can not find 
a way to abort an unwanted F-key message once it is started.
This is a pretty critical feature.

TR makes a great RTTY contesting program with an external TU.
However, there has to be a way tp abort a message immediately
with the Escape key.

Now that I think about it, there seem to be situations where 
the same thing applies to CW.  That is, I cannot abort a CW 
message under certain circumstances.  I think it happens 
intermittently when using Control-Enter to log a QSO.  
Has anyone else experienced an inability to abort messages?

-Kirk  K4RO


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