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[WriteLog] Your own call highlighted - How to stop it?

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Subject: [WriteLog] Your own call highlighted - How to stop it?
From: w5xd@alum.mit.edu (W. Wright, W5XD)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 05:04:54 -0000
You will find that your own call does not get highlighted if the 
copy of the software you are running is registered to you.
Wayne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-writelog@contesting.com
> [mailto:owner-writelog@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Bob Ruvolo
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 00:01
> To: Writelog Reflector
> Subject: [WriteLog] Your own call highlighted - How to stop it?
> 
> 
> 
> I once asked this question before on the reflector but never 
> got a response.
> An annoyance for me is the highlighting of my own callsign by 
> Writelog, i.e.
> 
> 
> Xmit:CQ CQ WPX de KI6DY/0
> 
> Rec: KI6DY/0 de W1ABC W1ABC
> 
> What happens here if I have already worked the W1 mult but 
> not a KI0 mult is
> that W1ABC is highlighted in green and KI6DY/0 is highlighted 
> in yellow. If
> I hit the insert key I send the following.
> 
> Xmit: KI6DY/0 UR 599-123-123 DE KI6DY/0
> 
> 
> Once I work KI0LO I am only highlighted in green but may 
> still send the
> above if the incoming call sign is not highlighted and I hit 
> the insert key.
> This action has gotten me into the habit of always clicking 
> on the call I
> want to work and hitting the buffer function key, two 
> seperate actions that
> could be replaced by one if the call I want to work is highlighted.
> 
> So the question is: Is there a way to command Writelog to 
> ignore your own
> callsign. If not a solution would be to edit the master or 
> rtty.dta and
> remove one's own callsign. Don't know how to do that though. 
> Another would
> be to enter you own call into the working log (for each band) 
> that way you
> would show up highlighted in red.
> 
> This problem is not limited to WPX.
> 
> Any help?
> 
> Bob - KI6DY
> 
> 
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