As a sometimes RTTY contester I've been meaning to ask this question for
a long time. I find it slows me down to move back and forth from the
keyboard to the mouse so I spend most of my time using the keyboard
whenever possible, including typing in calls.
N1MM is my contesting software of choice. Do most of you use the mouse
to click on calls and function keys or what is your normal process?
73 de Terry KK6T
W70m@aol.com wrote:
> Phil
>
> Mark sent me the note below. I am pretty sure others are having success
> as well. So will look at multi-functional programmable mice for the shack
> here.
>
> 73
>
> Rod W7OM
>
> I use a fairly simple one, with one button (as well as pressing the wheel)
> for ESC and the
> other extra button for ALT-W (clear callsign in N1MM). I find I've become
> so ingrained
> with hitting ESC on the keyboard that I don't use it as much as I thought.
> With N1MM
> and ESM, with right click sends enter, most of the actions are driven from
> the mouse so
> I don't usually use the keyboard for anything except odd calls that call
> parsing did not
> decode or of course ESC.
>
> I use a Logitech USB MX518 mouse. I also used a wireless microsoft mouse
> but it
> was a 27Mhz variety and seemed to get confused sometimes.
>
> Mark n2qt
>
>
>
> In a message dated 2/17/2010 9:15:56 P.M. GMT Standard Time,
> pcooper@guernsey.net writes:
>
> Hi Rod and the group,
>
> Rod, if you get any useful answers, I would be interested too!
> As part of myshack upgrade to Win7, I found that I needed to get a better
> mouse than the old ball-style mouse I had previously.
> The new one I have is seemingly for gamers, but works amazingly well, and
> has 7 or 8 configurable buttons.
> As yet, I have not even contemplated looking at this possibility, although
> it had crossed my mind when I bought it.
>
> Could be useful!
>
> 73 all
>
> Phil GU0SUP
>
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