Well, thanks everyone for your time and trouble, both here and direct.
It's going to take me a little while to digest all this.
One thing that seems to come through is that WL users have learned to
always use that one more keystroke that seems to be needed to log the Q
in S&P. As I only use WL for RTTY and TR for everything else, and as I
might enter say, 3 RTTY contests in a year and about 25-30 CW and SSB
ones, it's hard for me to remember that extra stroke and I lose Qs, lots
of them. This, of course, means that some of you also lose Qs you made
with me. In one contest I lost many Qs in a row before realizing that
they weren't being logged. How did I notice? I was S&Ping along making
Qs at a reasonable clip when I saw that the rate meter said zero. You
can appreciate that this made me "unhappy".
I've had a few folks tell me privately that they have the same problem.
TR users all, I suppose.
A possible "fix" that occurs to me goes as follows:
There's a call in the call field and a valid exchange in the exchange
fields.
I enter a new call in the call field.
WL says, "Do you want to log the existing call? Y/N"
I respond appropriately.
If Y, WL logs the last Q, displays the new call and waits for the
exchange info.
If N, WL doesn't log the last Q because I'm telling WL that it wasn't a Q.
This would stop me from forgetting to put you in the log which will make
both of us very happy. Not only that, the constant nagging would
eventually make me remember to make that 3rd keystroke.
Would this drive the rest of you nuts? Presumably if you have already
logged the Q this message wouldn't come up so it wouldn't slow you down
at all.
Maybe see you in TARA Sprint.
73 de Jim (the untrainable) Smith VE7FO
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