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Re: [RTTY] RTTY RU Exchange Complaints

To: Dave Hachadorian <k6ll@arrl.net>,"RTTY reflector" <rtty@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] RTTY RU Exchange Complaints
From: Jerry Flanders <jeflanders@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:09:27 -0500
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Earlier you said two _spaces_. That was not correct.

I had never noticed this "two of any characters" problem - I never 
run squelched, and guess I normally have enough junk to fill those 
two characters.

Jerry W4UK

At 12:27 PM 1/12/2012, Dave Hachadorian wrote:
>Writelog does indeed need two characters after a call sign before
>the
>call sign will highlight.  Garbage characters work fine.
>
>You can verify this behavior yourself:
>Open up Writelog.
>Make sure garbage characters are not printing.
>Left-click the title bar of the rttyrite window (where it says 60
>      wpm Baudot - rttyrite)
>On your keyboard, type "W7WW" - the call will not highlight
>Type one space - W7WW will still not highlight.
>Type a second space - W7WW will then highlight.
>
>Have you ever seen a case where a callsign at first does not
>highlight, but about 5 seconds later it DOES highlight?  What is
>going on there is that a garbage character comes along to give
>you the required second character.
>
>Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
>Yuma, AZ
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jerry Flanders
>Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 9:48 AM
>To: Dave Hachadorian ; RTTY reflector
>Subject: Re: [RTTY] RTTY RU Exchange Complaints
>
>At 11:19 AM 1/12/2012, Dave Hachadorian wrote:
> > >The BIG sin still remains - no space after your call sign.
> >
> >Actually you need TWO spaces after your call sign if you want
> >Writelog users to see your call highlighted.
> >
> >
> >Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
> >Yuma, AZ
> >
>
>???? Been using WL years, never saw that. Matter of fact, it even
>finds known callsigns totally buried inside strings of garbage.
>Don't
>know about the current version, though.
>
>Jerry W4UK
>
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